Habit Quotes - Page 18

• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

  John Locke

  Practice, Conquer, Reflecting

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• Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

  Martha Beck

  Needs, Alternatives, Bad Habits

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• Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Our Actions, Our Thoughts

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• Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

  Elizabeth George

  Worry, Trust In God, Excellent

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Breaking the Worry Habit...Forever!: God's Plan for Lasting Peace of Mind”, p.20, Harvest House Publishers

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• I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Atheist, Blessing, Thinking

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• My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

  Luke Ford

  Space, Isolation, Far Away

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• But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Light

  Jonathan Edwards (1845). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission”, p.18

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• In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

  Hannes Holm

  Order, Ideas, World

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

  Ian Bogost

  Personality, Who We Are, Capacity

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

  Ian Bogost

  Art, Crazy, Kids

  Source: app.longform.org

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• On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.

  Jill Stein

  Heart, Hands, Should Have

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set of rules, habits, systems, moving parts.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

  Ted Cruz

  Father, People, Wife

  ""This Week" Transcript: Live from Philadelphia Democratic National Convention". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2016.

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• I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.

  Ted Cruz

  Dog, Father, Commitment

  "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.msnbc.com. September 23, 2016.

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• I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Decision, Important

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• Marriage is rather a silly habit.

  John Osborne

  Marriage, Silly

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• There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which they're going to do anyway, whether it's legal or not, or under the influence of drugs, which they're going to do more, if it's legal.

  Kevin Sabet

  People, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Defense, Secretary

  "Gen. James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Picked By Trump To Be Defense Secretary". "All Things Considered" with Steve Inskeep, wbaa.org. December 2, 2016.

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• Nowadays, people have a habit of relativizing religion, reducing it to "your truth" versus "my truth" versus "their truth," and that's the end of it.

  Greg Koukl

  People, Reducing, Ends

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

  Norah Jones

  Drinking, Sleep, Playing Music

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Two, Rich Countries

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Hate, Reading

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

  Arthur Jafa

  Disappear

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

  Lucas Hedges

  Given, Bad Habits

  Source: www.gq.com

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• People develop their health habits when they're kids, and that carries through their whole life.

  Maria Rodale

  Kids, People, Whole Life

  Source: www.mcall.com

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