#habits

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ↗

— Robert Hall

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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims. ↗

— Carlos Santana

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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of. ↗

— Tom Holt

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Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

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I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits. ↗

— David James Elliott

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It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits. ↗

— Shirley Jones

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I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ↗

— Walter Pater

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