Quotes About Habit

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

In a scholarly manner I have made it a habit to collect different crowd-control manuals, and I read them to the police sort of reminding them of basic tenants of crowd control, such as minimum use of force to effect an arrest. I tell... the police that they may have been put in a dangerous situation by their superiors.

When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food - you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.

Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.

I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.

the front, brushed her teeth, and went to bed

Well, you blink fourteen thousand times a day—so much that your eyes are shut for twenty-three minutes of every waking day.

The average adult touches his face sixteen times an hour

The conviction that we should all drink eight glasses of water a day is the most enduring of dietary misunderstandings.

A person who smokes cigarettes regularly (about a pack a day) is fifty times more likely than a nonsmoker to get cancer. In

Goossens, the man who started it all, likewise failed to see his dream realized. In 1956, while passing through customs at Sydney Airport, he was found to be carrying a large and diversified collection of pornographic material, and he was invited to take his sordid continental habits elsewhere. Thus, by one of life's small ironies, he was unable to enjoy, as it were, his own finest erection.

New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Satan, the father of lies. He uses "harmless" white lies to get us started in this insidious habit. Lies pave the way for greater temptations to come. Satan whispers that a white lie is "consideration" for other people. We bend ourselves to the world instead of to Jesus who is the Truth.