Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential.

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

I want to get rid of the image that I never turn up on time, because everyone always complains about this habit of mine.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.

I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

I wonder sometimes if I've got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

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