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“Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.”

Dog Habit Chains Ballast

Book:Proust

Source: Proust

“Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.”

Men Strong Habit Balls Chains Prisoner Drag

Author:Garrison Keillor

“The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.”

Heart Habit Chains Serpent

Author:William Hazlitt

“Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.”

People Trying Children Form Attention Amount Habit Eating Marketing Chains Clients Nurture Fast Food Youngsters Food Chain Eating Habits Eating Fast Food

Author:Eric Schlosser

“There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.”

Important Motivation Powerful Magic Habit One Day Chains Knocking One Day At A Time New Habits

Author:Gary W. Keller

“It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that meets people's needs. The Beyond Beef campaign is an important step in that direction.”

People Needs Important Steps Events Development Needed Habit Eating Campaigns Chains Links Beef Sustainable Development Eating Habits Chain Of Events

Author:Walden Bello

“You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.”

Made Habit Eating Investing Chains Fast Food Betting Food Chain Eating Habits Sweatpants Spanx Spandex

Author:Carol Leifer

“A keystone habit leads to other positive habits and disciplines. These positive traits start a chain reaction that produces other positive outcomes. The presence of these important habits help you become more faithful in other areas of your life. On the other hand, the absence of these key disciplines can impact you negatively.”

Important Helping Hands Produce Keys Habit Discipline Areas Impact Absence Reactions Chains Faithful Outcomes Traits Keystones Chain Reactions Positive Outcome

Author:Craig Groeschel

“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”

Want Imagination Existence Teacher Imagine Habit Selfish Chains Live Life Imagine That Inability Commonplace Escaping Clinging People Don't Change

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.”

Reason Would Be Break Habit Stronger Chains Ties Forged

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha