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“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

“Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.”

Way Believe Body Christian Order Belief Christianity Habit Worship Determined Doctrine

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.”

“The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.”

Way Habit Best Way Bad Habits

Author:James Cash Penney

“An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.”

Way Mind May Art Body Hands Care Culture Causes Forget Existence Worry Habit Normal Conscious Entertainment Daily Life Nerves Routine Popular Culture Body Art

Book:The Politics of the Unpolitical

Source: The Politics of the Unpolitical

“The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.”

Way Looks Children Eye Beautiful Night Sound Attention Kindness Sky Habit Rain Witness Pauses Night Sky Savoring Sound Of Rain

Author:Tara Brach

“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.”

Way Wells Facts Form Choices Habit Behavior Anger Angry Reactions Insane Insanity Behave Frustration Severe

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.”

Men Way Mind Reason Lying Clear Habit Perception Weak Competition Contrary Odds Bent Inclination

Author:George Berkeley

“As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.”

Way Mind Heart Self Culture Realizing Differences Common Creative Taken Our Lives Progress Journey Habit Strategy Deeper Common Sense Daily Life Heart And Mind Ambiguity Intercultural

Author:H. Ned Seelye

“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.”

People Way Said Self Speak Fun Nice Habit Involved Conscious Tough Come Up My Way Staring Tennis Load Polite Scotland Hello Self Conscious

Author:Andy Murray

“One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Wells Kind Different Character Habit Sells Scripts Available Block Scenarios Screenwriters Imposition Different Roads

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I don't have time to devote to putting outfits together before picking up the kids. I'm a creature of habit and in that way, I tend to just go towards what works for me and what's comfortable. It's really important to be comfortable when you're running around after kids.”

Way Important Running Kids Together Habit Creatures Comfortable Outfits Creatures Of Habit

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.”

Way Inspiration Certain Decision Taught Habit Dad Honor My Dad Debt Lofty

Author:Anne Lamott

“Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.”

People Way Needs Pain Path Strange Habit Exercise Drug Alcohol Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.”

Way Mind Problem Found Enjoy Habit Creatures Routine Creatures Of Habit

Author:Victoria Pendleton

“You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.”

Way Wells Real Habit Being Real Preparing Bad Habits

Author:Champ Bailey

“The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.”

People Ifs Way Government Behinds Car Habit Buying Vehicle Gasoline Gasoline Prices

Author:Alexandra Paul

“Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.”

Way Facts Turns Choices Born Talent Habit Gifted Born This Way

Author:Seth

“The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.”

Way Moments Happens Lost Meditation Habit Mindfulness Mercy Spending Spells Waking Our Thoughts Lost In Thought

Author:Sam Harris

“I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.”

Way Records Habit Details Focused Freak

Author:Balthazar Getty

“For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.”

Way Wells Play Wanted Jobs Difficult Acting Accepting Careers Habit Directors Theater My Way Aspiration Default

Author:James Cromwell

“When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.”

Way Kind Littles Shows Fall Acting Break Four Habit Picks Cameras Sitcom Bad Habits

Author:Mila Kunis

“There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.”

People Way Years Would Be Enjoy Interest Animal Impossible Groups Products Habit Eating Traditional Ethnic Groups Eating Habits

Author:Gary Player

“In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.”

Way Mind Made Philosophy Reading Strong Results Cases Habit Pages Research Driven Suits My Way Organized Metaphysics

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.”

Thinking Way Difficult Habit Performances Conventional Difficult Times Way Of Thinking Conventional Ways

Author:Robin Sharma

“I like writing and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Writing Trying Stills Different Helping Pain Enjoy Acting Creative Habit Balance Painful Different Ways Help Me Vary

Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an old, married couple, although the established habits will remain in place.”

Way Couple Habit Married Paris Berlin Romanticism Sentimentality Married Couples

Author:Max Gallo

“It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversity of friendships is one of life's real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth, their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderful to have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship.”

“With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.”

“Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.”

People Ifs Way Want Should Firsts Children Parent Teacher Honest Habit Our Children Peaceful Being Honest Your Children Copies

Author:Baba Hari Dass

“Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.”

Thinking Way Writing Mind Practice Habit One Way Drains

Book:the elements of style

Source: the elements of style

“Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.”

Way Humans Running Lost Habit Faster

Author:Rollo May

“You'll see in the movie he constantly does that-he only drinks his tea a certain way, brings his own tea bags, the guy pours hot water, it's like a consistency throughout the film, but he never breaks his habits. I mean, to a point, where he has to.”

Way Mean Doe Film Guy Certain Water Break Habit Drink Hot Tea Bags Consistency Hot Water Tea Bag

Author:Antoine Fuqua

“If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must be abandoned. Anything in my habits or ways which mars happy fellowship with the brethren or robs me of power in service, is to be unsparingly judged and made an end of-'burned.' Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.”

Source: A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1928-29

“The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.”

Way House Energy Habit Direct Slips Guests Unwelcome New Habits House Guests

Author:Robin Sharma

“Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.”

Way Easy Practice Habit Replaced Those We Love Old Habits

Author:Bill Crawford

“Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.”

Way Use Able Spirit Language Ready Habit Ten Capacity Twenties Dollars Cute Bias Tempted Pretentious Handy

Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.”

People Ifs Way Actors Habit Terrible Directors Tendencies What If Good Habits

Author:David Mamet

“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.”

Way Habit South Bad Habits Vietnamese

Author:Bui Diem

“In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.”

Thinking World Way Two Modern Habit Creating Separation Links Way Of Thinking Arab World

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.”

Thinking Way Memories Habit Harmonious Selected

Author:Ken Keyes Jr.

“Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.”

Source: For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization

“When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.”

Way Causes Walks Huge Habit Conversation Commitment Lifestyle Our Thoughts

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that.”

Thinking Way Littles Certain Bits Crazy Habit Dad Little Bit Odd

Author:Simon Bird

“I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.”

Ifs Thinking Way Hard Action Force Attention Effects Habit Empathy Scales Pushing Translate Good Way Cumulative

Author:Leslie Jamison

“I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.”

Way Feels Writing Littles Bits Term Habit Creatures Little Bit Creatures Of Habit

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and I know if I tried to write those books the way I wrote the stories it would take me years to finish.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Trying Years Firsts Book Stories Break Novel Couple Habit Take Me

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.”

Way Needs Mind Certain Order Realizing Results Habit Ego Waste Consequence Complaining Resistance Wasting Time Our Thoughts

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“I encourage people to pick up small habits like taking a walk after meals... we've become way too sedentary. Just move!”

People Way Moving Walks Habit Picks Meals Sedentary

Author:Theo Rossi

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