Quotes About Habit

One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.

I was playing Sultan Razia and had a habit of twitching my wrist when I took a movement.

I have this rubber band that I have all the time on my wrist, and sometimes when I get nervous or anxious, I'll do this twiddle thing with my finger and I'll snap the rubber band. A lot of people use rubber bands to cope with things like anxiety and depression and addiction.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

I can't tell you how much money I waste on plaid shirts, whisky that I hate the taste of, and Moleskine notebooks that I never write in.

Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude.

I should make one healthy choice, and then stop choosing.

Habits make change possible by freeing us from decision making and from using self-control.

The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life.

What I do most days matters more than what I do once in a while." That kind of self-encouragement is a greater safeguard than self-blame.

When scheduling a new habit, it helps to tie it to an existing habit, such as "after breakfast," or to an external cue, such as "when my alarm rings," because without such a trigger, it's easy to forget to do the new action.

Also, accomplishing small tasks boosts our sense of "self-efficacy." The more we trust ourselves to follow through on our own commitments, the more likely we are to believe that we can keep an important habit.

once the habit is in place, we can effortlessly do the things we want to do.

the real key to habits is decision making—or, more accurately, the lack of decision making

To a truly remarkable extent, we're more likely to do something if it's convenient, and less likely if it's not. For this reason, we should pay close attention to the convenience of any activity we want to make into a habit.

mere acquisition isn't enough to establish a good habit

The Strategy of Scheduling, of setting a specific, regular time for an activity to recur, is one of the most familiar and powerful strategies of habit formation

Research suggests that about 40 percent of our behavior is repeated almost daily, and mostly in the same context.

day three days a week for six weeks

Any beginning is a time of special power for habit creation, and at certain times we experience a clean slate, in which circumstances change in a way that makes a fresh start possible—if we're alert for the opportunity.

If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.

Many assume that offering a reward will help people to jump-start a healthy habit, which will then persist after the reward fades away. Not so. Often, as soon as the reward stops (and sometimes before it stops), the behavior stops.