Quotes About Habit

Toward some few others who habitually became drunk or who couldn't control their drinking, most people adopted an attitude between knowing condescension and outright scorn: why were these people so weak or immoral as not to know when enough was enough?

In his nicotine addiction articles, he mentions one example—that Orthodox Jews who are addicted to cigarettes quit smoking "without a qualm" on the Sabbath.

They were not spontaneous people. They were born with too great a love of words, a passion for drama at the expense of truth, and a habit of overweighting common life with romance.

While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early morning, she was aware that at the back of her mind there was another thought that was not at all stale, but so fresh that it was nearly a feeling, with all a feeling's delicious power to kill thought.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

People knit for their own reasons, but some of the most intense knitters I know are the ones who used it to help them quit smoking. It's a perfect plan, really; knitting keeps your hands busy, and it is relaxing and repetitive enough to hold off most of the urges to smoke. You get to spend your cigarette money on yarn, a powerful motivator, and two weeks after you quit you have four sweaters, three hats, and several really big afghans. Knitting can be a useful tool for self-improvement.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

True love has a habit of coming back.

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Non poté fare altro, naturalmente, che incorniciare le sue frasi in quel modo vuoto e stantio di cui ormai era schiavo. Qualsiasi cosa si provi, nel cuore o nello stomaco, le vecchie abitudini restano radicate. Parole e gesti rispondono a leggi dittatoriali, senza fantasia; un rito spettrale, che nega lo spirito.

If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.

That was the purpose of habit, in my grandfather's view: to render memory unnecessary.

The confirmed stick-in-the-mud will always fall victim to the interventions of other people acting on impulse, because if habit is his religion, then his Satan is change, and in the end, we are all prey to temptation.

Instead he had become immured, by fear and its majordomo, habit...

two packs of cigarettes

It's hardly ever the destination we've been anticipating, is it? Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing. Where did we--the species, that is--pick up that strange and perverse habit?

Each day was an identical package, and the gorgeousness of them was their perfect resemblance, each to the others. Like a drug, repetition changes the size of things.

Ouspensky was saying that hell on earth is life as we have always lived it, and heaven on earth is breaking free of our long-standing patterns.

Sarah," I began softly, "if the Business Development Process were only about Orchestration, I would agree with you—it would be deadly. Absent a higher purpose, all habits are. Because that's all that Orchestration really is, Sarah: a habit. A way of doing something habitually.