Quotes About Habit

Once you get into the habit of falling in love you will find that it happens quite often and means less and less.

How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.

Prudence dressed with her usual elegance and painted her face and eyes with almost more than her usual care. It was at once force of habit and a kind of defiance.

Protecting yourself by stopping your own enthusiasm is unavoidable. No one can take endless doses of hurt. Unfortunately, stopping your enthusiasm can get to be a habit.

It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

They governed from duty, heritage and habit—and, as they saw it, from right.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun; the education of circumstances — insensible education—which, like insensible perspiration, is of more constant and powerful effect, and of infinitely more consequence to the habit, than that which is direct and apparent.

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

I usually tug my helmet's brim once, then push it back up into position, but I'm not wearing a helmet. I'm embarrassed to find myself miming the action through sheer muscle memory.

I know the tendency of the human mind is to do anything rather than think. But mental labour is not thought, and those who have with labour acquired the habit of application, often find it much easier to get up a formula than to master a principle.

I do watch reality TV every night.

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

I have a PC because I don't know how to use a Mac. Actors always have Macs with them, and when I try to use someone else's, I can't get the hang of it. It's very strange; I don't like it.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn't like baseball caps so I got a beret.

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.

Only a healthy lifestyle will help you achieve a fit body. No shortcuts.

It's become sort of second nature whenever we get into a car to buckle up. It has to be second nature before you get into a car to ask, 'Hey, who are you here to pick up?'