Habit Quotations | Page 5

I hunkered down. I'm in the habit of keeping secrets, ... I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed.

I indicated that the government wants dialogue with the commission to clear the air on a broad range of issues as it pertains to Zimbabwe. The commission is now in the habit of refusing audience with Zimbabwe, and this is contrary to the rules and principles of natural justice.

India has this habit of dragging Pakistan into things it is not at all involved in,

In many parishes, we are still trying to foster that sense of involvement, not only in the various ministries of the church but in the habit and practice of giving. People are more inclined to give when they know what it is going for.

I never keep them when I make them, so I make a habit of not making them. Once you make them, they're so hard to keep. . . . I used to smoke and used to say, 'OK, that's it,' but 10 minutes later, you're lighting a cigarette.

In a small town like this, people are creatures of habit ... if you're out of sight, you're out of mind.

I'm not sure what happened. Something clicked. Renee has a habit of doing that. She looks kind of lost and not sure and then she looks like the best guard in the country.

I'm a pedophile. You know that, ... I'm gonna look. He was feeding my habit. ... It's like crack. After you give them that one rock, you know he's gonna come back. He's hooked.

Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.

I just thought they were kind of sleep-walking through the first five or 10 minutes. There were a few things we really wanted to focus on. One of them was driving the net and it's hard to do when someone's going 75 or 85 percent speed effort. I want to make it a habit to practice that way and sort of raise the bar a little bit in that area.

I had decided to buy in on the complete good-eating-habit program, and after surgery, I began losing one-half pound to a pound per day,

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

It has to get into their consciousness. Make it a habit.

It has cost me a small fortune but most people in the music industry have a bad habit of some sort, ... I buy everything I can get my hands on that I don't have, usually as it's released. With touring you get to visit so many stores in different towns it works out really well. At Midnight Madness this past April, I rushed to a Toys R Us and Wal-Mart straight after our show in Portland and spent a couple of grand on the new stuff. The bus is usually packed with boxes by the end of any tour and I become pretty unpopular for hoarding all the cupboards.

by increasing the cost of a pack of cigarettes much more -- closer to $1.50 per pack over 24 months. ... We need to give teen smokers a jolt to get them to kick the habit -- a significant price hike in a very short period of time.

Being a champion can become a habit. So let's establish that thing and see what it feels like to become a champion. Let's really put our nose to the grindstone, let's work at this and let's really put a lot of energy into winning this tournament.

Before a person makes a decision or gets involved he should form the habit of asking himself a simple but important question: "How will this affect my life, and others?" Alfred A

Children are creatures of habit and very much depend on a routine to feel secure and function well. Kids fall apart when you change their sleep schedule. They need at least 12 hours.

Sow an action, reap a habit.

How about a little mental intensity? How about substituting some of that if you get tired? Let's develop it. It's a habit of giving all that you have three hours a night.

Your habits determine your outcomes.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

Your habits will determine your future.

I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Home is where my habits have a habitat

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.

Liberty can change habits.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

A habit does not a monk make.

Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

I'd gotten in the habit of doing different things at home instead of practicing golf.

I don't think that's a bad habit; I think sucking your thumb is an OK habit, ... Somebody's bad habit could be smoking, that's kind of a bad habit because it's harmful to you. But thumb-sucking really can't hurt you, except for your dental plan.

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for it is our envy and admiration of the rich that supports their habit and keeps us hooked ourselves

I don't want to get into the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on. I don't want to separate myself from the rest of the world. If the world is not going too good, I'm part of that. I'll be happy to take the blame. I'm along for the ride.

He's made a habit of rapping on his artists' records in the hopes that this will jump-start their careers - and it does draw immediate attention - but that's just a shortcut. He'll need to do real artist development to ensure these guys have actual long-lasting careers.

I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch 'House of Cards' compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom!

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.

Life is but a collection of habits.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

I am a creature of habit.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.

Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.