Quotes with habits

Quotes 61 till 80 of 80.

  • Alfred Hitchcock Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Ben Stein 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.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Steven Biko The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
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  • Bruce Lee The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bing Gordon The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Tryon Edwards Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Merton To the truly humble man the ordinary ways and customs and habits of men are not a matter of conflict.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Edward Gibbon Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Bertrand Piccard Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Antoine Rivarol Vices are often habits rather than passions.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • John Dryden We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Eric Hoffer Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Harper 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.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Beck You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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