Quotes: Habits

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Honore de Balzac

French novelist and playwright (1799-1850)

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Jimmy Carter

president of the United States from 1977 to 1981

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being – his physical, mental and emotional habits – influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

Lee Strasberg

American theatre director, actor and acting teacher (1901-1982)

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Ezra Cornell

American businessman (1807-1874)

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained – they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

Al Franken

American comedian and former U.S. Senator (born 1951)

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you.

Frank Crane

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

It’s great to see that celebrities can be just like us – that they too have their highs and lows, that they don’t always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Shirley Jones

American singer and actress

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

Holbrook Jackson

British journalist (1874-1948)

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

Marilu Henner

American actress (born 1952)

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