Top 1200 Old Habits Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.

Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

Besides regular exercising, one should also take care of his or her daily habits such as adequate sleep and drinking lots of water.

Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.

I do have weird habits when I'm directing, or even think as a director, like when I move a cup, I make sure to put it back in the exact right place.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

It's such a long season, and there's so many games, so many trips, you've got to build habits and be consistent with what you do.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

When you're on a movie and the production department says, "We need old photographs of you - your character - when you were 20-years-old." I usually tell them it's in storage or I had a fire. I go back to these old photos and there's never a good photo or they're of times that I'm so glad I'm out of. They have nothing to do with the character that you're playing, so it feels false. That's one of the hardest things for me in terms of looking back.

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

Some rookies build bad habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.

There are coaches with habits you don't like, and you tell yourself, 'I don't want to be like that.' But there's no one way to success.

There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.

Broadcasters and production companies often don't appreciate the complexities of viewing habits, but Gogglebox has highlighted how in-depth people go when watching TV.

I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of forget how.

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

I have not had any opportunity to develop any hobbies, habits, anything like that.

We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.

I'm most excited about people being more conscious about their eating habits.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

Success comes when people turn what they've learned into the daily habits that breed success.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits.