Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

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.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

Habit is a great deadener.

I've been in the habit of helping people.

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

I know it's a terrible habit, but if I get a pimple, I'll sit in front of the mirror and pick at it for hours.

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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.

I got a bad habit of creating.

I think winning can become a bit of a habit.

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.