All Quotes By Tag: Habit
“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.”
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“And never, never, dear madam, put ‘Wednesday’ simply as the date! That way madness lies!”
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“The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.”
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“Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.”
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“Success is a habit, not an action.”
“Make your success a habit not just an act of whim.”
“With the new year having just begun, many of us have tried to change our habits, all of them, all at once. The best way to change your habits is to change them one at a time, to start small and gradually work your way up. Choose a habit, whether it be to stop doing something or start doing something, and focus all your time and intention on that habit. If you start trying to split your attention between multiple activities, you will soon find that you lose your motivation, focus, and energy. Small regular actions are far more beneficial than large irregular actions.”
“Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.”
“Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.”
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“As Aristotle said, ‘Excellence is a habit.’ I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he’s ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.”
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“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
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“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”
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“For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.”
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“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”
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