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• I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Desire, Hints, May

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• You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Long, Suffering, Youth

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• This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Attitude, Mind, Religion

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.286, Princeton University Press

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• I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Integrity, Mean, Leaving

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.598, Psychology Press

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• A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

  Anthony Weiner

  Mistake, Media, Religion

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• Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

  Twyla Tharp

  Writing, Creativity, Order

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• I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course, there are any number of variations in marital relationships between those extremes. But there is always a need for spouses to change their behaviors or habits to suit each other. I have always been set in my ways and did not fancy changing my behavior or lifestyle.

  Geraldine Lee Wei Ling

  Single, Husband, Numbers

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• I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

  Ron Atkinson

  Funny, Basketball, Football

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• A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Birthday, Old Habits, Clothes

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• It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

  Charles Jaffe

  Money, Business, Vaccines

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• Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

  Anil Ambani

  Change, Learning, Exercise

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• And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Strong, Thinking

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• We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

  Jerome Bruner

  Teacher, Teaching, Taste

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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• In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode iii, line 1, c. 23 BC and 13 BC).

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• Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Teaching, Mind, Rooms

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.35, Vintage

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• Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the problem is so trivial in comparison to the problems of human beings that no sensible person could give it time and attention. This too is a prejudice - for how can one know that a problem is trivial until one has taken the time to examine its extent?

  Peter Singer

  Taken, Emotional, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

  Vicki Baum

  Night, Men, Worry

  Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”

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• We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

  David Lee Roth

  Self, Four, Rock N Roll

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• In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so much innocent pleasure.

  Marcel Desaulniers

  Food, Yesterday, Chocolate

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• If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez

  Music, Writing, Flirting

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Commitment, Principles

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• One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your country, criticize all the habits you have and laugh at yourself, is the best way. If you know how to laugh at yourself then you will not object or will not stand in the way of any creativity of another person.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Country

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• The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Greatness, Erosion

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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