Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
Joan Chen
LoveHabitEffortMeSmokingActing
You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
Kate Winslet
HabitMeWinningYouThingsForgive
I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.
Tim O'Reilly
HabitPracticeControlBetterYou
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
NatureHabitIntellectualMaySense
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
HabitMindFreeMoralHardOver
The Bible app is designed to make absorbing the Word as frictionless as possible. For example, to make the Bible app habit easier to adopt, a user who prefers to not read at all can simply tap a small icon, which plays a professionally produced audio track, read with all the dramatic bravado of Charlton Heston himself.
Nir Eyal
HabitSmallBiblePossibleDramatic
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
Maxine Hong Kingston
HabitWorldEatingSeeingChanges
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright
TimeHabitMindWillBecomeGet
If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.
Rich Little
HabitYouNervousBecomePresident
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis Stevenson
NatureHabitI AmLookingGiftMuch
The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
Cass Sunstein
HabitFreeFindWriteHalfHour
When, in 2015, Greece decided by referendum to reject Brussels' austerity plans, the European Union's antidemocratic response took no one by surprise: To deny the people's will had become a habit.
Marine Le Pen
HabitPeopleSurprisePlansBecome
Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.
Jeff Bezos
TodayHabitMeReadingThinkFind
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Bernard de Mandeville
PassionQualityHabitSeedsWorld
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
Martin Henderson
HabitAmericanLostWayBecome
Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.
Amy Cuddy
HabitForwardMomentsPathsFeelings
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
Ben Marcus
PassionHabitJoyLonelyBedKind
When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.
Lynn Good
HabitDoorGrowing UpQuestionsUp
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
Steven Pressfield
GoodHabitFreeBadProfessional
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
Walter Pater
FailureHabitWorldEyeSaidTwo
Winning is a habit.
Leo Durocher
HabitWinning
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards
StrengthHabitBrokenSteelChains
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham
GoodMarriageHabitMistakeThink
I've always been worried about being late for things, so I'm 30 - 40 minutes early for everything. That's a habit I'll keep going.
Kim Matula
Keep GoingHabitEarlyLateAlways
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