It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May
HabitLostRunWayHumanFaster
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali
HabitI AmDemocraticMakingAm
Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.
Julian Baggini
ScienceCultureHabitLongPhysics
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
Mary Gordon
GoodHabitMindBadMoralFiction
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
HabitPeopleThinkWillGoogleBlog
Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.
Gretchen Rubin
DailyDayHabitWritingStrongWay
I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.
Michelle MacLaren
LovePassionHabitSupportSay
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. Henry
NatureHabitI AmChoicePlacesAm
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke
SoulHabitLongRoutineNewLiving
I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
MyselfHabitGoingPsychologist
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
GoodHabitHappyLookingYouBad
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
Henry Mayhew
HabitPeopleEveningPrinciplesWho
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
Loretta Young
HabitEnthusiasmOthersJustAfter
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar
FamilyHabitMeReadingClassPoor
My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.
George Saunders
ConfidenceAgeHabitI AmPeople
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru
HabitActingNationClaimDefensive
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
Karen Traviss
PowerHabitOpinionFactsMore
The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie 'Farrell for the People.' I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.
Fred Silverman
HabitPeopleTelevisionTableSales
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
Dick Van Dyke
HabitYouTelevisionKnowNowOut
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
F. Sionil Jose
WifeHabitFlameNostalgiaMatter
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
Ellen Gilchrist
LifeHabitSmallMy LifeTalking
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
Dorothea Dix
TimeHabitPeopleMeUnhappyOthers
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
WorkGoodBestHabitYourselfDoing
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
David Mamet
GoodHabitPeopleSayActorWay
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