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"We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes."
"We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry."
"I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of the reasons for that is my living this life, which is otherwise so free of obligations. It's not at all unusual for anybody who's independently employed to crave a way of living whereby they create the structures without which their lives would otherwise start slopping around all over the place."
"At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally."
"I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands ."
"Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it."
"A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule."
"Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish."
"It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit."
"The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression."
"It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is..."
"The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation."
"Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience."
"Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power."
"Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other."
"Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits."
"I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is."
"It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed."
"Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule."
"But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer."
