Quotes About Habit

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Fully 43 percent of the time, our actions are habitual, performed without conscious thought. We had provided the first scientific estimate of how often people act out of habit. It turned out to be a lot higher than science at the time had assumed.

Aristotle is reputed to have said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

They have a set pattern, and they follow it. They are not making decisions. Here's the very happy implication: the worst, most effortful run will be that first one. Or the second, perhaps. But effort doesn't last (in fact, if it does, you're doing it wrong). Habits will form and take the effort off your hands.

It was something they did without thinking. They had formed meditation habits. High "self-controllers" achieved desired outcomes by streamlining, not struggling.

The good effects that we popularly ascribe to "self-control" are, it seems, more accurately captured by situational control.24 The studies and stories just cited established this mechanism, a mechanism that will undergird every part of habit formation.

What I began to realize was that habit refers to how you perform an action, not what the action is.

In psychology we have a name for the automatic scripts our brains piece together when we repeatedly do the same thing in the same way: procedural memory. It's such an important repository of information that only the most frequently repeated patterns get stored like this.

The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken. —Samuel Johnson

He called it the double law of habit.3 Basically it means this: repetition strengthens our tendency to act, but it also weakens our sensation of that act.

By separating habitual cues from conscious awareness, the study showed that we eat in response to available cues: as long as there's food on our plate, we keep going.

Madness is always having the same result doing something different.

There are those who go their whole lives without realizing that they are repeating the same things every day."

Al??kanl?klar dinlendiricidir, çünkü tekrar edilebilirli?in ve güvenilirli?in damgas?n? ta??rlar.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

Very little repetition is needed for a new experience to feel normal!

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

The main function of System 1 is to maintain and update a model of your personal world, which represents what is normal in it. The model is constructed by associations that link ideas of circumstances, events, actions, and outcomes that co-occur with some regularity, either at the same time or within a relatively short interval.

The proof that you truly understand a pattern of behavior is that you know how to reverse it.

Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.

From our simplest habits to our most destructive behaviors, our actions are the direct results of our mental programming. Both psychologists and biblical scholars agree that it is almost impossible for individuals to behave inconsistently with what they believe about themselves. Your mind will naturally go in the direction of your most prevalent thoughts.