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A habit does not a monk make.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

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.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

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.

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

Habit is stronger than reason.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.