“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?” IfsShouldSeemsPastLyingFallFunLove YouDangerousGreatnessTearsHabitMy FamilyPressesFalling In LoveJournalistBeastWeekendMondayFridayLiving In The PastNever Fall In Love Author:Stephen L. Carter
“I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up to me. They're always really polite. It's nice, it's fun and good to speak to people who aren't involved in tennis, but some have this habit of just staring at me and that makes me really self-conscious. I'd rather they came up and said hello.” PeopleWaySaidSelfSpeakFunNiceHabitInvolvedConsciousToughCome UpMy WayStaringTennisLoadPoliteScotlandHelloSelf Conscious Author:Andy Murray
“I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.” ThinkingWritingYearsLongI CanFormFunLinesHalfBreakNovelAdviceBearsHabitPagesProseLengthPaceExcessProceedingBest AdviceAll The BestRewritingSnailTinkering Author:Debra Dean
“As guilty and fun as it is to go through a drive-thru and get a cheeseburger or whatever, I just feel like you can make your own burger at home. You know what's going into it. You know where it came from. And it's just easy to go back and forth to those drive-thrus. Just kick that habit!” KnowsFeelsHomeFunEasyLike YouHabitGuiltyKicksBack And ForthBurgersCheeseburgerDrive Thru Author:Julianne Hough
“I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.” FunTalkingSubjectsHabit Author:Gretchen Rubin
“To be honest I had learnt martial arts for a girl. So I started learning the art to impress her, but eventually I started loving martial art more than the girl. So later it became a habit it became fun.” ArtGirlFunHonestHabitBeing HonestMartial ArtsImpress Author:Akshay Kumar
“The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.” ThinkingProblemCultureFunStuffHappenedHabitEverydayMealsFast FoodFun Stuff Author:Michelle Obama
“As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain (kind of) and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard.” KindMadeHardKidsDiesFunBrainTeacherHabitBeatsConvincedTeenagerMusclesSkinnyJake Book:Catch a Mate Source: Catch a Mate
“You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.” PeopleScienceFunEnjoyHabitSkepticismSkeptic Author:Carl Sagan