The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Peter Ustinov
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.
Margaret Atwood
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Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.
Shannon Sharpe
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
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When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.
Twyla Tharp
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Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.
Joel Osteen
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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.
Katherine Waterston
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I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
Norman Foster
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I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
Melissa Leo
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I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
Ivan Lendl
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Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.
Noreena Hertz
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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.
Maya Angelou
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
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There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they're in there.
Mark Leibovich
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
Maria Mitchell
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If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.
Michael Fassbender
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The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
Edward Burnett Tylor
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We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
Morley Safer
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
Alphonsus Liguori
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