- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Habitual Quotes
On habit, routine, and what becomes second nature.
These quotes examine what becomes habitual, from politeness described as an artificial good humor that becomes habitual over time to a caution about habitual blindness to deeper, spiritual dimensions of a challenge. Readers can explore more in our Behavior quotes.
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- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
- Happy Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
- Break Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had friendships with two people in my life who, when I attempted to do my habitual behavior of building a case to break up with them, wouldn't allow me to do it. They both said to me, 'I'm not going anywhere.' And that moved me so deeply.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.
- Conditioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020