Quotes of: Bad-habit Keyword

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's t...

John McWhorter

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Mary Martin

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

Linda McMahon

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

John Irving

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Frank Lloyd Wright

When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.

Jewish

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

Herbert Kaufman

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Aristotle

In life, one's habits determines one's habitation in the long run

Constance Chuks Friday

Commitment to excellence is a great habit; unfortunately commitment to mediocrity is also a habit.

Debasish Mridha

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

John Dryden

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

John Dryden

You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subsequent generations. This was not done out of malice,...

David W. Earle

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Twyla Tharp

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Herman Melville

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Mark Twain

A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

Dan Buettner

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

Life

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banalit...

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say bef...

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, m...

J. Cole