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The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming
I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.
I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
I do miss talking in the press, I miss meeting journalists at shows and stuff but maybe that's more out of habit than anything?
I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.
Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'
I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame
We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
I've always been worried about being late for things, so I'm 30 - 40 minutes early for everything. That's a habit I'll keep going.
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think I am still hiding.
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.
We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.
Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.
Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
We've found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
I have a shoe habit. If I'm in New York, it's a problem because I'm walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it's not as bad.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
Whenever we haven't got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.
You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
I try to always take off makeup. But I'm also human, and sometimes I get lazy. However, I do try to encourage people to make it a habit.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.