Habit Quotations

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

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.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.

I can't imagine not reporting. It's such a habit of mind for me, I do it even in my social life. If I'm nervous at a party, I just start interviewing people.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

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

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

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

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

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.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.

My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don't know why, I just ate it as a kid. It's weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.

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

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

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

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

Bring your kids along next time you go to the grocery store and ask them to help find the price per unit for the general grocery items. By comparing brands and looking for the best prices, kids will get in the habit of looking for deals and understand the value of the dollar.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.'

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.