Quotes About Habit

The result of that kind of programming is that we end up where we are today, with our brains improperly wired, or often wired to work against us.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do

but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

You came back to me because I was a habit.

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

I definitely need coffee all the time. I drink probably four or five cups a day.

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

People watch three or four episodes at a time of their shows.

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

Sow an act reap a habit sow a habit reap a character sow a character reap a destiny.

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

The trouble is that I have grown accustomed to worrying about you.

In the shapeliness of a life, habit plays its sovereign role.

Fletcher was the instigator of a fad for extremely thorough chewing. We are not talking about British Prime Minister William Gladstone's thirty-two chews per bite. We are talking about this: "One-fifth of an ounce of the midway section of the young garden onion, sometimes called 'challot,' has required seven hundred and twenty-two mastications before disappearing through involuntary swallowing." (More on chewing and the "oral device" in chapter 7.)

I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it.