Best habit & poor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.”

Children Poor Habit Neighborhood Poor Children Poor Neighborhoods

“I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.”

Thinking Knows Men Poor Know How Too Much Fool Habit Healthy Eating Negative Excellent Unhealthy Connotation Eating Habits

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.”

Ifs World Way Giving Mind Wells Children Made Sometimes Sex Water Poor Struggle Habit Walking Elements Independent Males Dare Beloved Thrown Adam Trust Me Wrecks Infancy Beloved Friends

Author:Frances Wright

“Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.”

People Should House Poor Streets Return Habit Towns Court Crowds Contrary Plague Cleanliness Our Town

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population

“Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.”

Persons Soul Film Poor Clear Doors Habit Horror Hollywood Asking Sane Nasty Observers Occasional Misguided Cellars Attics Asking Why

Author:Andrew Tudor

“In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.”

Men Way House Term Wealth Poor Known Land Food Amount Habit Cooking Stores One Way Guarantees Culinary Wealthy Estates Medieval Peppers Pantry Medieval Times

Author:Waverley Root

“As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.”

Source: The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford

“You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.”

Needs Stills Parent Poor Habit Eating Active Need You I Need You Eating Habits

Author:Bob Harper

“People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."”

People Thinking World Should Looks Persons Song Poor Habit Sexy Pops Hey Sensitive Look At Me Cruel World Sensitive Person Poor Me

Author:Robert Wyatt

“Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.”

Giving Children Poor Poverty Habit Give Me Staying Neighborhood Illegal Cash Monday Showing Up Poor Children Poor Neighborhoods

Author:Newt Gingrich

“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

“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

“People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).”

People Needs Done Stuff Poor Habit Lists Contrast Good Work Work Habits

Author:Ray Dalio

“Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another.”

People Knows World Way Mean Children Use Age Purpose Force Poor Plans Birth Habit Do You Know Sole Poor People Old Habits

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.”

Two Country Reason Problem Term Poor Rich Planets Huge Habit West Climate Climate Change Incredibles Consumption Iniquity Poor Countries Rich Countries

Author:Bill McKibben

“The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He's like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled "poor." He doesn't have any bad habits. He's never cranky with his kids.”

Kids Perfect Poor One Thing Sweet Habit Bother League Bad Habits Ivy Carols Cranky Ivy League Christmas Carol

Author:George Saunders

“When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.”

People Way Country America Moving Poor Habit One Way Consumption Poor Countries

Author:Gary Bauer

“The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.”

Knows Years I Can Poor Numbers Habit Ordinary Years Ago Average Fifty Capability Work Habits

Author:Ben Stein

“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.”

Inspirational Wells Made Humanity Poor Knowledge Learning Habit Criticism Management Assumption Feds Exceed

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

“You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Children Littles Ends Sometimes Whole Home Might Together Used Mother Poor Morning Seeing Stupid Habit Letters Tired Foolish Spells Instruction Torment

Book:Northanger Abbey (illustrated)

Source: Northanger Abbey (illustrated)

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