"Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation."
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"I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing."
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"Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits."
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"The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence."
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"Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits."
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"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
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"If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom."
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"Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits."
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"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free."
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"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable."
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"We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day."
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"Habit: Often mistaken for love."
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"Fear is a habit; I am not afraid."
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"Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous."
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"Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed."
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"But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else."
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"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."
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"Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring."
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