Steven Pressfield
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One of them is predictable. VICTOR BLAZEVIC ELLIOTT ERWITT RICHARD BACH RICHARD BACH more on the professional than the amateur. BILL VALENTINE The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones. JEROME HINES Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spiri... ALFRED EISENSTAEDT MICK JAGGER SOURCE UNKNOWN Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a ... JOHN POLSON I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arn... JOHN SEXTON If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. RED ADAIR Sex is the only field where the amateur is favoured and the professional is disapproved. VIKRANT PARSAI Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live wit... MARK MATTESON Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not wor... JAMES SENSENBRENNER Having same bad habits can get you more close to each other than having similar good habits. SUPERNA BATHEJA HARVEY MACKAY I would love to one day race as a high level amateur or professional. CHRISTIAN PARRETT If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur... RED ADAIR But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it wa... BILLY JOE SAUNDERS OG MANDINO If we can create habits at a young age, these habits will carry into adulthood. BRAD JOHNSON There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad. JOSE BERGAMIN Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated b... PAUL MYER Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits. FARSHAD ASL An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A profession... BEN SHAHN TIM MCCARVER Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of... ALFRED EISENSTAEDT NIR EYAL The soaps are great training. You can form good habits - or you can form bad habits. You have to set... MARY PAGE KELLER Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits ROBERT PULLER EDMUND HILLARY an astonishing array of bad workplace habits. ALAN TURNER I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits. JORDAN KNIGHT W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it... MATT MCGORRY Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed". DEBBIE MACOMBER GEORGE MOORE DR. ROB GILBERT First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or
they'll eventually conquer you. ROB GILBERT OG MANDINO One big knock on teens is that they're not as professional (as adults), but I think that's a general... SHAWN BOYER One decision can develop into a habit, and the habits
you form create your reality. OLASOT We create our habits, and our habits create our lives. JIM GENOVESE Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans... JACK STEWART War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. REBECCA HARDING DAVIS Theater performances are very inexpensive if you go off-Broadway, and the amateur performers in New ... KAREN CURE SAMANTHA POWER TWYLA THARP It's been frustrating for all us because we don't get access to all our best professional players an... GLEN ELLA JOHN DRYDEN More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the ... STEPHEN RODRICK First we make our habits, then our habits make us. CHARLES C. NOBLE JOHN DRYDEN ALAN GREENSPAN EDWARD WESTON EDWARD WESTON AMIT KALANTRI EUBIE BLAKE ARISTOTLE People don’t desire their future, they decide their habits and their habits decide their future. VIKRANT PARSAI By nature, human beings are habit-forming creatures. We cannot live without being controlled by our ... TERENCE T. GORSKI SAMUEL BECKETT Your habits, good or bad, profoundly affect others. JIM GENOVESE J. AUGUST STRINDBERG AUGUST STRINDBERG “If good habits are fatty unhealthy food, we’ll be eating them every single second, if good habi... MINA TADROS Cultivate an environment fertile for good habits to flourish MONEY TREE MAN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DOROTHEA DIX In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. The... FRANK MILLER Good habits result from resisting temptation. PROVERB Good habits result from resisting temptation. ANCIENT PROVERB Good habits result from resisting temptation PROVERB ALAN GREENSPAN WILL ROGERS I have the same friends and the same bad habits. NATE SILVER TORI SPELLING MAURICE STRONG ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER Start from where you are. Empower yourself. Adjust habits. Triumph over those habits -- this is how ... NANCY S. MURE GEORGE ILES MATT CARTWRIGHT MORTIMER J. ADLER Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if w... DOUG E. FRESH MEGAN SMITH Bad habits start early, and not alone. ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR OG MANDINO W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM JENNY CRAIG J. PAUL GETTY The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food. MATT AUSTIN MARK TWAIN Bad personal habits spill over into bad business habits. You can't be a loser in one part of your li... DAN WALDSCHMIDT SAINT TERESA OF AVILA My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title. LAYNE STALEY He has very good practice skills, good habits. He never does anything less than 100 percent, and tha... DENNY MARTIN Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient. DAVID COVERDALE
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I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur p... 
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. 
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. 
The two teams are really different. Japan is a very professional team and Cuba is an amateur team. 
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. 
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding 
Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. 
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. 
Habits can be good or bad, whereas addictions are always bad. 
I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and wi... 
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the ba... 
Celibates replace sentiment by habits 
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. 
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. 
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. 
We first make our habits, then our habits make us. 
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Habits are good if you have the habit of the best. 
I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me... 
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. 
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits. 
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is e... 
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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
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