#habits

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. ↗

— Richard Whately

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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio. ↗

— Ann Brashares

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I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. ↗

— John Dryden

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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Weight loss is a sum of all of your habits - not individual ones. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

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The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

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What we do constantly shapes who we are, and what we become, our habits show the world our true identity ↗

— Martin Suarez

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