Best habit & next Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.”

Kind Made Joy Passion Next Pleasure Rooms Habit Bed Lonely Eavesdropping

Author:Ben Marcus

“Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.”

Ifs Men Country Next Simple Habit Killing Determined Protection Kill Me Assassination

Author:William Herndon

“Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.”

Next Habit Solitude Shots Builder Narcotics Good Habits

Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley

Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley

“So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.”

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.”

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!”

Giving Two Today Three Next Bits Week Advice Habit Drug Dear Crowds Following Finding Yourself Dozen Next Week Dear Friend Following The Crowd Three Friends

Book:The Rest of My Life

Source: The Rest of My Life

“The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next”

People Mind Next Difficult Generations Habit Essentials Tradition Technique Experiments Characteristics Habits Of Mind

Book:The Scientific Outlook

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“When youre doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do whats expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.”

Ifs Looks Next Chance Roles Source Habit Standing Expected Frozen Filling Take A Chance What You Love Resilient Standing There Doing What You Love

Author:Dick Costolo

“Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.”

Ifs Mean Next Habit Band Exciting Studios Expensive Strings Sections Radiohead

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next.”

Ideas Science Next Progress Generations Habit Tools Mathematics Instinct Insight Math New Ideas

Author:Jim Propp

“Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.”

Firsts Next Pleasure Habit

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments when our minds ask: 'What next?' In these chinks of time, ask Him: 'Lord, think Thy thoughts in my mind. What is on Thy mind for me to do now?' When we ask Christ, 'What next?' we tune in and give Him a chance to pour His ideas through our enkindled imagination. If we persist, it becomes a habit.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Mind Ideas Moments Next Asks Christ Imagination Chance Lord Habit Tunes Persist Obliged Chinks

Author:Frank Laubach

“We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.”

Life Doe Art Age Jobs Form Next Process Work Pay Race Practice Habit Victory Creating Art Is Dues Quitting Posts Payment Lifelong Mortgage Compliance Creating Art

Author:Seth

“I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.”

Men Writing Littles Light Past Next Names Habit Pure Silly Crap Bad Habits

Author:Charles Bukowski

“If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.”

Ifs Needs Problem Jobs Next Asks Opportunity Interest Steps Team Industry Habit Members Seeking Employee Annoying Promotion Suggesting Follow Up Team Member Job Opportunities

Author:Martin Zwilling

“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

“Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Done Next Chance Half Habit Involved Nasty Involvement

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.”

Facts Next Situation Habit Defeat Disregard Bland Eerie Old Habits Looking Ahead

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing as an artist. If you always have the same creative habits, how will you ever excel to the next level? The answer is, you won't. Taking those creative risks reaps the most incredible rewards.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Artist Next Lines Answers Levels Creative Clear Growing Risk Communication Habit Rewards Incredibles Crucial New Ideas Reap Next Level Lines Of Communication

Author:Wendy Starland

“Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the next: I'll wake up and have coffee, read the news, then write a letter or two (always in longhand), then go teach, and after teaching write a bit in a journal - dreams, what I had for breakfast and lunch and why I had it, what's on the iPod, sexual habits, etc. - then read a bit, then work on a real bit of writing...you get the idea.”

Writing Two Ideas Real Dream Seems Next Bits Teach Teaching Habit Balance Exercise Eating News Aspect Flow Letters Wake Up Coffee Etc Breakfast Lunch Journal Woven Ipods

Author:Kevin Keck

“I tried partying and going out, doing drugs and even dealing drugs to support my habit. I was hanging out with people from the underground who were doing illegal things all the time. I was experimenting with more and more drugs to the point where skateboarding was the last thing on my mind and my family was next to last.”

People Mind Lasts Next Party Support Habit Drug My Family Illegal Hanging Out Going Out Skateboarding Things On My Mind Illegal Things

Author:Christian Hosoi

“Get in the habit of never putting the phone next to your brain or body unless it's a true emergency.”

Body Next Brain Habit Phones Emergencies

Author:Devra Davis

“I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.”

Knows Feels Looks Littles Persons Mother Next Bits Doors Habit Little Bit Cancer Breasts Breast Cancer Daily Habits

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”

Ifs Giving Kind Use Action Next Easy Virtue Habit Devil Angel Fairs Assuming Monsters Tonight Customs Stamps Refrain Abstinence Easiness Hamlet Love

Author:William Shakespeare

“...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.”

Ifs Body Lying Night Next Habit Heavy Familiar Breathing Pet Friendly Reassurance Affront Necessary Things

Book:Jazz

Source: Jazz

“Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.”

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