Hunter S. Thompson

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

American Journalist

Dalai Lama

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Tibetan Leader

Terry Pratchett

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

English Author

Blaise Pascal

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.

French Philosopher

Maya Angelou

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

American Poet

Wayne Dyer

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

American Psychologist

Napoleon Hill

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

American Author

Joyce Meyer

When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?

Antoine Rivarol

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

French Journalist

Plutarch

Character is simply habit long continued.

Greek Philosopher

Understand when and where to use 'habit' by observing the context it's used in.

Context Matters

'Habit' can refer to good or bad patterns, focus on adjectives for clarity.

Positive or Negative

When 'habit' means addiction, it often implies a challenging behavior to overcome.

Addiction Reference

This sense of 'habit' usually has a negative connotation, unlike 'routine' or 'practice'.

Negative Connotation

This outdated meaning is rarely used, be mindful of the context, often historical or religious.

Specialized Usage

Knowing this meaning helps understanding of older texts or specific conversations.

Clothing Context

In botany, 'habit' is a technical term describing how a plant grows or appears.

Botanical Feature

Usually found in scientific texts; knowing this can help with academic reading.

Academic Language

 and how confident they feel about that knowledge. But some of the most amazing things about dolphins are their senses of empathy, altruism, and attachment. The habit of helping injured individuals extends across the species barrier as evidenced by the many accounts of dolphins carrying humans to the surface to breathe.

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 but it also makes communication easier between non-native speakers from different backgrounds. Descriptivism, on the other hand, gives us insight into how our minds work and the instinctive ways in which we structure our view of the world. Ultimately, grammar is best thought of as a set of linguistic habits

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 but occasionally, the pressures of modern life forces us to clench and hold it in. How bad is this habit, and how long can our bodies withstand it? The answers lie in the workings of the bladder, an oval pouch that sits inside the pelvis. Surrounding this structure are several other organs

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 say the gods like Brahma has created the universe but then they ask a question who created Brahma right and then there always a question them creation happened and then the gods habit they say that the sages when they were in their trance they got that revelation that how the

The Hindu Interpretation...

 to accept help, to give help, and to work together towards a common goal. In addition, commitment to a team and doing something fun can also make it easier to establish a regular habit of exercise. School sport participation has also been shown

How playing sports...

 and like an addict trying to kick a habit, the first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem. And let me just say, this profits mania that we're on is so deeply entrenched that we don't even realize how we're harming society.

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 In fact, researchers have worked out that, worldwide, inactivity causes about 9% of premature deaths a year. That's over 5 million people. So what seems like such a harmless habit actually has the power to change our health.

Why sitting is bad for...

 even if it costs you your friends and family, or stick with comfortable and familiar illusions? Truth or habit? Light or shadow? Hard choices, but if it's any consolation, you're not alone. There are lots of us down here.

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 denial and bad habits can kill you but even if being vague doesn't shorten your life it does prevent you from fully living it one cure for terminal vagueness is trunking track your numbers track your time

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 go find some professor sarah lauer is a passionate advocate for the fireflies treacherous ways but to understand their deceit first you need a crash course in firefly mating habits