Quotes About Habit

She absentmindedly twirled her fingers around a lock of her long, brown hair, one of her few concessions to vanity. It would have been more sensible to cut it short, but it was thick and soft, and Henry just couldn't bear to part with it. Besides, it was her habit to wind it around her fingers while she was thinking hard about a problem, as she was doing now.

When most individuals or most companies are talking about trying to create healthy habits, the key is to identify which habit or habits seem most important.

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

I can't leave anywhere without making my bed; it's ingrained.

When you do something all of your life, it's still ingrained in you.

While initially I would crave food late at night, I worked hard on it and now my body has accepted the new change. I don't follow any diet, I just don't eat anything between 7 pm-12 pm.

When innovations become habits, prescriptions, they must be imagined all over again, made new.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

Every day when I wake up, I check Instagram.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

It seemed to her that she'd been smoking in order to get through the days, not that her days were ornamented by cigarettes.

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

Talvez o facto de viver numa grande cidade como Londres me levasse a desconfiar de estranhos, hábito que queria perder.

A nation which has people who can think, that nation already has strength. It is the mind which rules, Eustaquio -- not instinct or habit.

supposed he'd get used to the smell eventually, even though he

Better to live with the guilty secret than the open truth of their life together - that they were bound by the habit of illicit lust, mutual degradation.

Igual que el hábito no hace al monje, el motivo tampoco hace al emprendedor.

El hábito no hace al monje y el filósofo no es un título, es una forma necia de ser.

The most important actions are never comfortable. To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

In every society are men of base instincts. The sadists, brutes, conveyors of all the ancestral atavisms go about in the guise of human beings, but they are monsters, only more or less restrained by discipline and social habit. If they are offered a drink from a river of blood, they will not be satisfied until they drink the river dry.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

It often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter are the consequences.