Quotes About Habit

I gotta ask you...why do you always circle before you lie down? I said. As opposed to what? Johnny Depp asked, astonished by the question. You mean not circle? How would I tamp down the leaves and twigs and get comfortable? What leaves and twigs? I said. This bed is twig-free. Hmm. I see your point, said Johnny Depp, pausing for a second before he resumed circling. But did it occur to you maybe that's because I circle first?

Professor Sengupta had the self-satisfied habit common to many academics of pretending an intellectual equality with his audience in order to happily demonstrate his own superiority.

The habit of thinking in terms of comparison is a fatal one.

Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.

What you say about changing one's self denial is only too true and terrible - it went to my heart - one does form a habit, and then it is no bother.

Todo lo que constituye una persona es una serie de experiencias unidas por la memoria y por ciertas similitudes que llamamos hábito.

On the one hand the purposes of the community are enforced upon the individual, and, on the other hand the individual, having acquired the habit of viewing his life as a whole, increasingly sacrifices his present to his future.

all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures.

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

In my closet, you'd find five black shirts that look the same, 10 pairs of the same white pants, and five pairs of almost the exact same shoe. Every time I go out, I buy shoes that are very similar to my other shoes - it's a problem.

Here's a pro-tip: there's no such thing as a 'gym person.' There are just people who go to the gym. Similarly, there's no such thing as a 'productive person.' There are just people who do productive things fairly often.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to allow it to think in another, that will produce great strength in battle.

Turning pro is like kicking a drug habit or stopping drinking. It's a decision, a decision to which we must re-commit every day.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to allow it to think in another, that will produce great strength in battle.' They

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

All addictions share, among others, two primary qualities. 1. They embody repetition without progress. 2. They produce incapacity as a payoff.

Often couples or close friends, even entire families, will enter into tacit compacts whereby each individual pledges (unconsciously) to remain mired in the same slough in which she and all her cronies have become so comfortable.

same cup he always carried, his perpetual bourbon and Coke.

As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how love and habit blurred so thoroughly to make a life.

It was an odd habit, I thought, this insistence on driving a car in cities with public transportation.

Resignation is a habit, and it is contagious. It