Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries. – Dorothea Dix
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives. – Chris Jordan
Darwin wasn’t just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes – he didn’t go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament. – Frans de Waal
Their practice habits are terrific. I’ve been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it. – Dan Quinn
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months. – Dee Hock
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions. – Frederick William Robertson
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. – George Saunders
Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves. – Natalie Massenet
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. – Edith Wharton
Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you. – Frank Crane
Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups. – Michael Shermer
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves – the creature of habits and infirmities. – Isaac D’Israeli
I don’t have any expensive habits. I’m not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I’d love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. – John Lydon
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones. – Michael Bennet
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being – his physical, mental and emotional habits – influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized. – Lee Strasberg
It’s unfortunate, you know, that you can’t change people’s – habits, their personal habits. – Linda McMahon
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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. – Judith Wright