Quotes of: Good-habits Keyword

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Bertrand Russell

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

Claude Chabrol

Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.

Gary Hopkins

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

John C. Maxwell

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Joe Paterno

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

Dan Buettner

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

David Brooks

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

John Green

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Frances Wright

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

Gerrit Smith

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Marcel Proust

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

Renee Fleming

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

Simon Winchester

Doyle: Potentially habitable worlds right within our reach. Brand: Could save us from extinction.

Interstellar

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: We called him Mother Superior on account of the length of his habit.

Trainspotting

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Aristotle

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

Marcel Proust