Best habit & loses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.”

Writing Process Loses Practice Creative Doors Keys Habit Structure Insight Instance Consistent Writing Process Invitations Daily Habits

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.”

Jobs Individual Loses Needed Habit Periods Skills

Author:Janet Yellen

“If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.”

“Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.”

Loses Habit Revelations

Author:Robin Skelton

“Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.”

Loses Ability Inspire Habit Buried

Author:Sara Genn

“I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.”

“When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.”

Looks Matter Seems Law Evil Left Loses Justice Views Habit Citizens Gains Advantage Errors Point Of View Rulers Caution Disobedience

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.”

Way Giving May Sometimes Helping Bigs Energy Interest Loses Habit Easier Majors Stress Transformation Excitement Minors Insignificant Authentic Happiness Major Change Under Stress

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.”

Long Used Loses Leader Habit Periods Election Facility Best Leader Free Elections

Author:Chinua Achebe

“It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.”

Ifs Men Loses Justice Habit Lawyer Sanctity Accusation Insufficient Calumny

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.”

People Persons Action Moving Loses Wife Habit Quiet Lows Calm Noise Manners Traits Accustomed Spoons Affront

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Workers develop routines when they do the same job for a while. They lose their edge, falling into habits not just in what they do but in how they think. Habits turn into routines. Routines into ruts.”

Thinking Jobs Turns Fall Loses Habit Workers Edges Ruts

Author:Robert J Kriegel

“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.”

Mean Littles Hours Loses Poor Five Happened Months Habit Eating Gains Twenties Pounds Stomach Eating Habits Good Eating

Author:Mila Kunis

“To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.”

Men Loses Liberty Habit Drink Longing Smoke Servant Meat

Book:The Works of Jeremy Taylor

Source: The Works of Jeremy Taylor

“God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.”

Needs Giving Lying Voice Loses Silence Danger Listening Habit Comfort Essentials Acquire True Friend Resisting

Author:Francois Fenelon

“My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth.”

Knows Want Next Loses Known Gone Couple Habit Teeth Maple Syrup Maple Syrup

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?”

Thinking Self Care Suffering Interest Loses Forget Too Much Habit And Love Curiosity Neighbor Gossip Idle What Is The Meaning

Author:Lucy Larcom

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

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