#habit

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#conquer #country #culture #empty #forgotten

I have the same friends and the same bad habits. ↗

— Nate Silver

#bad habits #friends #habits #i #same

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#aware #convincing #doing #habit #i

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title. ↗

— Layne Staley

#bad habits #habits #strengths #talent #title

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. ↗

— James Tenney

#another #certain #come #composer #defines

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#bad #bad habit #bad habits #correcting #get

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#am #destroys #first #habit #i

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ↗

— Plautus

#composed #friendship #inhabiting #single #single soul

Character is simply habit long continued. ↗

— Plutarch

#continued #habit #long #simply

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#elsewhere #habit #here #how #life