A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

I cannot really recall when I faced stage fear because I started so young. It's my natural habit. But you know, I can see how I have changed, rather improved as a singer. I never had a formal training but regular practice of singing.

Neha Kakkar

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Edmund Husserl

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Jessamyn West

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

Mike Myers

Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

Epictetus

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

John Eliot

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

If your taste goes wrong or you listen to other people's tastes too much, even though they could make a fantastic movie out of it with their own tastes, if they blend their tastes with mine, it's probably going to be a mess.

Andre Øvredal

They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.

Frederick Lenz

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Stephen Covey

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Walter Lippmann

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

Kurt Masur

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.

Charles Duhigg

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

Meghan Daum

When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.

Alexei Mordashov

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