Quotes About Habit

Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

I've developed a habit of people-watching. In Paris, I love watching all kinds of people walking by from my apartment terrace, and while I'm traveling the world, I enjoy observing all the people in airports.

I reckon if you stick to the same thing every day for lunch when you are traveling, you know where you are. And it is one less decision to make.

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.

Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

Getting down to the gym a couple days a week and having low-fat milk in your morning latte isn't going to make much of a dent in a system or lifestyle that is essentially, well, unwell.

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Everyone wants to change, but no one wants to do anything differently.

I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Finally, what I want from poetry is akin to what Flaubert wanted from novels. He thought they should make us dream. I want a poem, through its precisions and accuracies, to make me remember what I know, or what I might have known if I hadn't been constrained by convention or habit.

Routine wears down vigilance.

One of our elusive killer's critical advantages was the ingrained habit among police agencies not to share information with one another.

It's stupid being superstitious like that, he knows, but if you don't have private little rituals, the days can lose their meaning real fast.

Gregory Bateson once put it . . . The human being, depersonified in his own talk and thought, may indeed learn more thingish habits of action.16

Children who begin working at an early age with music have, as habit, much less pre-attentional or unconscious gating in the neural network that attends to sound. Gating, in general, develops over time and with exposure, the pre-attentional self learning to gate whatever is not important to the conscious mind. Children, by nature, have much less gating than adults—gating

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.