Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them."
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Habit
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Socrates
Philosopher
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit."
Julio Cortazar
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!"
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"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious."
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"You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs."
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"We become what we repeatedly do."
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"All people are the same; only their habits differ."
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"Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?"
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"Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had."
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"I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them."
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"Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction."
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"No habit has any real hold on you other than the hold you have on it."
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"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."
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"Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty."
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"Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny."
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"Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit"
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"Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it."
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"A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected."
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"Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve."
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"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."
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"Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit."
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"...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself."
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"As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off."
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