Quotes About Habit

Large numbers of adults as well as children have now become habituated to eating a version of 'kid food' over a whole lifetime: sweet, salty, undemanding to chew and swallow and heavily processed.

Changing the way you eat is hard, but it can be done. Look at Japan.

If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.

All the foods you regularly eat are the ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs.

With our own personal diets, we often convince ourselves that there is something vital within us that prevents us from ever eating differently.

Unless you have singing in the family and singing in the house, singing everywhere, until it becomes a habit, you never can have congregational singing; it will be the cold drops, half water, half ice, which drip in March from some cleft of rock, one drop here and another there; whereas it should be like the August shower, which comes ten million drops at once, and roars on the roof.

Almost through force of habit, she found her lips saying the words she had so often said before: "Let's not spoil it . . . You will write to me, my dear, my dear . . ." His face was impassive. "I never write," he said.

Keep breathing,' I said. 'It's a habit you don't want to break.

What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit.

I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances that were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, m'lord." Leave the police alone in a room for five minutes and we start looking in drawers, locked or otherwise. It's a terrible habit.

Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands the whole concept of boundaries, but there's a point where this mania for normalizing turns toxic.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

These were her rituals, the rutines that made her feel alive and connected. Without them, where would she be? Lost

Sin unto death" therefore, is not any act of sin however heinous, but a state or habit of sin wilfully chosen and persisted in: it is the constant and consummate opposition to God. In the phraseology of this Epistle we might say that it is the deliberate and persistent preference of darkness to light, of falsehood to truth, of sin to righteousness, of the world to the Father, of spiritual death to eternal life.i97

Man must ever be the slave of routine: but in old days it was a routine of great thoughts, and now it is a routine of little ones.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man happy wealthy and wise.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.

and therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, In time might make the worst man good throughout.

sustained loss in matters which are indifferent, do not imagine this to be a damage. For it is a bad habit. But as the old man, when he went away, asked back his foster-child's top, remembering that it was a top, so do thou in this case also.

We advise tea for the whole nation and for every nation. We advise men and women to drink tea daily; hour by hour if possible; beginning with ten cups a day, and increasing the dose to the utmost quantity that the stomach can contain and the kidneys eliminate. [Quoting Dr. Cornelius Buntekuh, Dutch physician in the pay of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680]

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.