Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Ryan Howard will have the same work habits. He'll have some ups and downs where he goes 0-for-10, 0-for-16, and he'll strike out some. But if he does the same thing he's been doing, he'll be fine. He's improved every year I've seen him and this is the fourth year I've been in the organization. If he keeps the same demeanor and work habits, he's going to be real good.
Old habits are strong and jealous.
He has a habit of picking a weak enemy and berating them.
When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor'd youth, Unlearned in the world's false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false speaking tongue On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd. But wherefore says she not she is unjust And wherefore say not I that I am old O, love's best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
HABIT, n. A shackle for the free.
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
I just like his good, honest work habits. And he's a caring player and a good teammate. And when you reward people like that with good ice time and opportunity, more often than not they'll deliver to your expectations - as long as they're realistic.
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
I've learned how to control my body. The bigger you are the harder it is to control your body. I'm 6-4, so I don't need to play any higher than I already am. You just have to break tendencies because everybody has some kind of habit that they don't want. I just have to work hard on breaking that.
A habit does not a monk make.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
I saw, for the first time in my life, two or three young white women smoking tobacco in clay pipes. From their manner it was evidently a well-formed habit, and one which they did not suspect there was occasion for them to practice clandestinely, or be ashamed of.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
I have been very fortunate in worldly matters many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.
Men tend to be creatures of habit. Once they have integrated a brand, they stick with it, unlike women who will try all kinds of products from a number of different lines.
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
Children are creatures of habit and very much depend on a routine to feel secure and function well. Kids fall apart when you change their sleep schedule. They need at least 12 hours.
One important source of unhappiness is the habit of putting off living to some fictional future date. Men and women are constantly making themselves unhappy because in deferring their lives to the future they lose sight of the the present and its golden opportunities for rich living.
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
I love to score goals after passing all the defenders as well as the keeper. This is not my speciality, but my habit.
All of us have schnozzles . . . if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.
I think he felt he was part of a Hollywood community. He would do wedding announcements and birth announcements. He wasn't interested in sexual peccadilloes and drug habits. And my readers are much more interested in sexual peccadilloes and drug habits.
One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity-the habit of saying good morning to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.
Drinking alcohol and smoking are bad habits. Please stay away from these. I am not smoking these days.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
I'd gotten in the habit of doing different things at home instead of practicing golf.
It started when we were 4-8 and beat Northern Iowa and Western Illinois. The next year we got off to a good start because we had found a way to win. Winning becomes a habit just like losing is a habit.
He's a good guy to pick his brain a little bit. It's great to be by his side and talk to him and learn from him and watch his work habits.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
As a society we have a habit of saying a little drug experimentation is OK for young people when they venture off onto their own. In actuality the experimentation affects everyone and often times leads to addiction.
We recognized a great opportunity here to encourage reading, and what a better time to do it than when they're newborns It's a wonderful way to bond with newborns and to make reading a habit early.
It will take time for people to find us, to get into the habit, to get used to what the schedule is.
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Habits change into character.
I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat
The beauty of life depends upon our good habits.
If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that. I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.
It should not be a source of low-cost financing for countries with ready access to private capital, or long-term welfare for countries that cannot break the habit of bad policies,
A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
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