Quotes About Habit

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.

Health is a habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself. Her

Giving up smoking is easy… I've done it hundreds of times

Say something enough times and you never forget it.

Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.

If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never will, of course. Maybe money is the great conspiracy, the great fiction. The great addiction too: we're all addicted and we can't break the habit now. There's not even anything very twentieth century about it, except the disposition. You just can't kick it, that junk, even if you want to. You can't get the money monkey off your back.

Women can die gently -.. -. Men always die in torment. Why? Towards the end, men break the habit of a lifetime, and start blaming themselves, with full male severity. Women break a habit too, and start blaming themselves no longer. They forgive.

The thoughtless habit of using the words "existence" and "exist" as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both from being and from a radical, forceful, and definite exegesis of being.

It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing-gown.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Habit and originality, then, point in opposite directions in the two-way traffic between conscious and unconscious processes. The condensation of learning into habit, and the automatisation of skills constitute the downward stream; while the upward traffic consists in the minor vitalising pulses from the underground, and the rare major surges of creation.

Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any sort of reflection, and very properly mistrust their own discernment. At the same time this remarkably strong imitative instinct

human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to. You only had to look around you, Ammu said, to see that the beatings with brass vases were the least of them.

L'abitudine a commutare il vissuto in poesia apre una valvola di sicurezza per eccesso d'impressioni e rimpiazza il bisogno di parlare.»

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

I walked up to the house, rubbing my shoulder where it still hurt from the rifle's recoil. But soon, it wouldn't hurt because I would get used to it. It was amazing to me, what a person could get used to.

I wish I had a tray table in my bedroom and I wish I smoked, just so I could extinguish my smoking materials

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure'- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

In one scene, when I was supposed to say, In a pig's eye you are, what came out was, In a pig's ass you are. Old habits die awfully hard.