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My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.
I have developed a nasty habit of losing to the guy who wins the tournament, and that alone makes you think what you could have achieved.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.
I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Guys don't get as many physical compliments as women do. Tell him his CrossFit habit is paying off. He'll work double time to impress you.
It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.
I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.
Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived - thru habit and not thru merit.
As a band, we always took a really long time to make records, so unfortunately, we got into that habit of, like, 'We'll work on it tomorrow.'
How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.
My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.
The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the habit of reading, watching, and preserving.
I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.
I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
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.
Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?
I think my worst habit is struggling with technology, even though I know how this stuff works, I need to bring conscious thought into how I use.
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.
If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'
Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."
The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
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.