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My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.'
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Breakfast
Busy
Clock
Habit
Healthy
Lunch
Pie
Miss
Run
Downstairs
Eaten
Hole
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In a scholarly manner I have made it a habit to collect different crowd-control manuals, and I read them to the police sort of reminding them of basic tenants of crowd control, such as minimum use of force to effect an arrest. I tell... the police that they may have been put in a dangerous situation by their superiors.
Vermin Supreme /
Habit
Minimum
Reminding
Scholarly
Arrest
Manner
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If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.
Mahavira /
Confirmation
Fourth
Habit
Practice
Tomorrow
Today Tomorrow Must
Today Tomorrow Day
Appointed
Conducive
Hour
Irregular
Neglecting
Regularly
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The Bible app is designed to make absorbing the Word as frictionless as possible. For example, to make the Bible app habit easier to adopt, a user who prefers to not read at all can simply tap a small icon, which plays a professionally produced audio track, read with all the dramatic bravado of Charlton Heston himself.
Nir Eyal /
Audio
Bible
Bravado
Dramatic
Easier
Example
Habit
Track
Absorb
Adopt
App
Charlton
Possible
Read
Tap
Simply
Designed
For Example
Small
Himself
Icon
Word
Plays
Produced
User
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Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.
Gretchen Rubin / Author
Excitement
Giving
Habit
Insignificant
May
Stress
Transformation
Dismiss
Gradually
Minor
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People are used to streaming and binge-watching. When they see an author they like, if there's only one book, even if they like the book, they're going to forget about you. The way to keep you in their mind and to get you to become a habit for these readers is you have to have a lot of product out there for them to read.
Marcia Clark / Prosecutor
Habit
Streaming
Mind Keep People
Mind People Way
Author
One Book
Product
Readers
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
Viggo Mortensen / Actor
Be Kind
Common
Curious
Effort
Habit
Opposites
People
Realizing
Views
Worthwhile
Totally
Opposite
Yourself Your Step
Allow
Open
Somewhat
Figure
First Step
Minded
Points
Step
View
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As each generation comes up that doesn't have the habits for paper it's just easier and cheaper to get your stuff online. You know, people go to what they're used to. Certainly our generation, you know, we'll always want to have a magazine in our hands. We like that, but millennials didn't see the value in that necessarily.
John Buffalo Mailer / Author
Habit
Online
People
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I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that's why I always, always try to get a workout in.
Jake Paul /
Fitness
Committed
Fans
Greatness
Habit
Setting
Single
Workout
Why
Try
Doing
Same
First
Encourage
Every Single Day
First Step
Necessarily
Page
Same Page
Single Day
Step
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
H. P. Lovecraft / Author
Bible
Composition
Equal
Habit
Imaginative
Invaluable
Poetic
Quaint
Rhythm
Study
Vocabulary
Analytical
Cultivate
Writers
Model
Forceful
James
Saxon
Themes
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It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
John Mcwhorter /
Add
Chewing
Dialect
Habit
Posture
Sloppy
Additional
Teachers
Good Black Bad
Bad Habit
Genuinely
Mouth
Repertoire
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I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.
Elizabeth Gilbert / Author
Habit
Harm
Journalist
Time Business World
Time Business Believe
Believing
Lie
No Business
Sold
Trusting
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A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.
Florence Nightingale / Statistician
Break Through
Habit
Light
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
Lewis Carroll / Writer
Habit
Kitten
Made
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Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.
Steven Stucky /
Distrust
Exposing
Fake
Habit
Listeners
Pretentious
Remains
Virtue
Austere
Conspicuously
Feature
Frontier
Impaired
Suppose
National Character
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I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up longer, but over 15 years, it's become a habit. In my circle, I think a lot of musicians operate like this. When the place is quiet, you're more creative. I have plenty of people I can call at 4 A.M. and know they'll be up.
Damian Marley / Artist
Habit
Plenty
Quiet
All Day
Circle
Music Night Day
Operate
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There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to drive me there at night and pick me up when it closed. I think he was worried about this routine but never let on. Also, I kept this a secret from my friends, as I don't think it would have been considered the 'coolest' habit.
Jeffrey Tambor / Actor
Habit
Library
Public Library
Routine
San Francisco
Worried
Closed
Coolest
Francisco
Near
San
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.
Margaret Atwood / Poet
Communication
Available
Habit
Mean
Online
Reading
Structure
Adjust
Forms
Communications
Immediately
Inherited
Possibilities
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What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?
Lucy Larcom / Poet
Sympathy
Curiosity
Gossip
Habit
Idle
Neighbor
Self
Thinking
Too Much
Absorb
Cares
Intellectually
Lose
Meaning
Meaning Of
Originate
Sufferings
Worse
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The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Accounts
Avoiding
Essence
Habit
Lying
Procrastination
Tasks
Thinking
Great People Happy
Indulging
Involve
Lies
Mental
Perplexing
Psychic
Surely
Toll
Unpleasant
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I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.
Alice Waters / Chef
Delicious
Enlightened
Focused
Habit
Salt
Sugar
Addictions
Feed
Universities
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
Saint Teresa Of Avila /
Felt
Habit
Joy
Lord
My Soul
Order
Tenderness
Violence
Converted
Endured
Entrance
Failed
Favours
Saw
Immediately
Serve
Took
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Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.
Julian Baggini / Author
Culture
Fall
Habit
Long
Nasty
Observation
Physics
Quantum
Quantum Physics
Range
Staying
Phenomena
Falls
Interferes
Limited
Possibilities
Regular
Remain
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When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.
Dick Costolo /
Filling
Frozen
Habit
Resilient
Standing
What You Love
Love Yourself Your
External
Chances
Love Look Yourself
Poorly
Sources
Taking Chances
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When I started my career in television, there was a certain type of stories that were told. Who would have thought that one day I would get a chance to make a film on a story that is based on nothing, just a slap - a habit or practice that has been normalized for so long that if the woman gets upset over it, society says she is 'over-reacting.'
Anubhav Sinha /
Habit
Over It
Slap
Upset
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As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary references, because in the end, I'm concerned, not in an abstract way, but an actual way, with creating a world which has a universality to it - even though what goes on is made up of texture and detail, contemporary detail.
Mike Leigh / Writer
Abstract
Habit
World
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Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.
Philip K. Dick / Novelist
Habit
Matter
Way
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If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.
Helen Fielding / Novelist
Habit
Knowing
Matter
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My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.
Pawel Pawlikowski / Filmmaker
Auschwitz
Defined
Habit
Not Talking
Secular
Mother People Father
Ethnic
Partly
Such Things
Talked
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When someone tells me they want to start a diet, I'll suggest they start by aiming to drink half their body weight in ounces of water every day. It's much easier to add a habit than to take one away, but the water goal is a challenge. When they conquer that for the month, they've set a new standard for achievement and can add on something tougher.
Rachel Hollis /
Diet
Achievement
Add
Conquer
Easier
Habit
Half
Water
Weight
Aiming
Month
Challenge
Standard
Suggest
Tougher
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I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling to let go of. I never dreamed that I would be making black-and-white paintings with so little embellishment. But it's been liberating in many ways to let go of that and yet see what I did want to retain.
Caio Fonseca / Artist
Habit
Letting Go
Painting
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We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
Aristotle / Philosopher
Habit
Littles
Our Actions
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When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.
Henry Ward Beecher / Minister
Men
Habit
Important
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I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don't have Xs on my hands, but I guess if I wanted to go back to calling myself straight-edge, I could. Around that same time I started running. I never saw myself as the kind of person who would become a runner. It seemed unfathomable to me that I would ever run three miles, let alone 26.2.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Running
Habit
Kind
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I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of the reasons for that is my living this life, which is otherwise so free of obligations. It's not at all unusual for anybody who's independently employed to crave a way of living whereby they create the structures without which their lives would otherwise start slopping around all over the place.
Geoff Dyer / Writer
Habit
Reason
Unusual
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There are a variety of ways in which a wedge is driven between the reality of the world outside, the motion of atoms, and our conception of what is there. Some of it has to do with what we're told, some of it to do with sensibilities that might be described as cultural, some of it to do with habit, some to do with heuristics we, as Homo sapiens, invoke because we cannot do otherwise - to name just a few of the impediments.
Zia Haider Rahman / Novelist
Habit
Reality
World
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Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.
Mark Dunn / Author
Habit
Toadstools
Trying
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