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Quotes About Habit

Me di cuenta entonces de que eso se debía al cigarrillo, de que al fin estaba pagando al contado la deuda acumulada en quince años de fumador desenfrenado.
~ Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Buddy and Angela keep track of daytime just by figuring out the last and next time they will come together and how long alone. They become the heated habit of each other.
~ June Jordan
Papi was a voracious reader, couldn't even go cheating without a paperback in his pocket.
~ Junot Diaz
People like her got addictive personalities. You don't want to be catching that.
~ Junot Diaz
Call yourself a tea drinker all you want, but I know your sneaking in a cup of Kona....
~ Justina Chen
If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.
~ Justina Chen Headley
Familiarity is soporific,' writes physicist B. K. Ridley. 'It breeds consent to whatever models we're used to.
~ K.C. Cole
So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.
~ Kamila Shamsie
One can make a habit of anything. If one is taught from a young age to pray, he will pray out of habit. Prayer is not done for the well-being of the god one prays to. It is done for the well-being of the one who prays. It is also done out of fear. The fear that if one does not pray, something will be taken away from him, or that he will be punished. Man has turned god into a genie and a warden.
~ Kapil Gupta
I went back two weeks running, then three months after, just to be sure, and then a year after that. So punctual are they that they have trained the local birds to fly in for their breakfast." Holmes sighed as he took a pull of his Partagás. "Rich or poor, Douglas, we are all creatures of habit.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The best way of building up a habit for dance is to introduce it early.
~ Arlene Phillips
I don't drink coffee. Weird, I know. But I try to stay away from caffeine. That said, we are investors in Blue Bottle, which is delicious!
~ Chris Sacca
I'm addicted to my iPhone and get a game for it every few days.
~ Todd Howard
I use iPod all the time, almost every day. It's great.
~ Casey Neistat
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
It's much better to play the guitar a half hour a day, every day, than not practice for a week and then jam for five hours one day.
~ John Petrucci
Jason Sudeikis is always chewing gum.
~ Bill Hader
I wear American Apparel jeans every day of my life.
~ Rosa Salazar
Now that the time that calls me to depart draws near, I think, or will not be too long, like one whom losses make acute and wise, I keep on wondering where I left the way that leads to a safe haven on the right: and on the one hand I am stung by shame and sorrow making me turn back; and on the other cannot break the habit of a pleasure grown so strong that now it dares to play for time with death.
~ Francesco Petrarca
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
~ Francis Bacon
A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules.
~ Francis Bacon
My friend Josephus dons heavy wool sox prior to 'booting-up' up' his PC!
~ Francis M. Faber Jr.
If life were merely a habit, I should commit suicide; but even now, more or less desperate, I cannot but think, 'Something wonderful may happen.' It is not optimism, it is a rejection of self-pity (I hope) which leaves a loophole for life… I merely choose to remain living out of respect for possibility. And possibility is the great good. — Frank O'Hara, Early Writing , 108-9 (1/22/49) Bookpeople (June 1977).
~ Frank O'Hara
Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.
~ Frank Peretti