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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."”

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”

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Book:Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”

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Book:The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey

Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey