The more a race is governed by its passions the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument the more intense will be its love of music.
Quality is not an act it is a habit.
Over the last four years I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions from the detergent Mom always used to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited not because I am such a great mom but for me.
While civilization has been improving our houses it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young the habituation of the middle-aged and the mutual dependence of the old.
Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life and you'll find that you have more of it.
I'm trying to get in the habit of you know picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down not my feelings but my thoughts about things and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.
Once you learn to quit it becomes a habit.
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.