Quotes About Habit

Repetition builds conditioning.

Atheists . What grounds have they for saying that no one can rise from the dead? Which is harder, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been should be, or that what has been should be once more? Is it harder to come into existence than to come back? Habit makes us find the one easy, while lack of habit makes us find the other impossible.

Habit is a second nature thta destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

The difference between the mathematical and the intuitive mind. [1]—In the one the principles are palpable, but removed from ordinary use; so that for want of habit it is difficult to turn one's mind in that direction: but if one turns it thither ever so little, one sees the principles fully, and one must have a quite inaccurate mind who reasons wrongly from principles so plain that it is almost impossible they should escape notice.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

Consistency requires discipline. Force yourself out the door.

Manuel Flores va a morir,/ eso es moneda corriente;/ morir es una costumbre/ que sabe tener la gente.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Sadness isn't a kilesha , a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness sis what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].

Reduce the duration of your showers by two to

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

Why speak of love? We were used to each other.

Because we are creatures of habit, we need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

To be useful, learning must have a worthy purpose and become a habit. A trip down this road starts with the questions "Why?" "How?" and "What?"—the major interrogatives in the English language. A wise person asks these questions virtually without thinking; a wise teacher guides his students to acquire the habit of asking them.

when you sow a thought, you reap an action. When you repeat an action, you develop a habit. When you maintain a habit, you create a character.

intense stereotypies—stereotypies an animal spends hours a day doing—almost never occur in the wild

Judging by what I see when I accidentally walk in on them, guys really like masturbating to the Google homepage.

really was in a basement, studying the evolution of reproductive behavior in Pimephales promelas (the fathead minnow), and writing was two things to me: a pleasant habit and a way to explore Big Ideas. You

Raisins again. I like raisins, but I have a habit of losing one or two on the floor every time I eat them. I always find them later and think they are: a) a mouse turd or b) a cockroach. Then I figure out it's a raisin and sigh with relief. This pretty much happens every time I find a lost raisin.

That stuff'll kill you." "What? Your coffee?" Jack was just doctoring his second cup. "No. All that saccharine. You're poisoning yourself." "We've all gotta go sometime." Jack went right about then.

hasta lo inesperado acaba en costumbre cuando se ha aprendido a soportar.

Fijate, ahora va a bailar, siempre baila un poco a esta hora. –Parece un oso.

Y le sonriera con la sonrisa de otros tiempos pero nada mas que eso, la sonrisa vacia, la costumbre de una sonrisa donde talves habitaba la lastima