#habits

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born. ↗

— Frank Miller

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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

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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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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. ↗

— Albert Camus

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We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. ↗

— Saint Teresa

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I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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