Quotes About Habit

people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

Forgive me, he went on. For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

In this country people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Believe me, it is the mornings that determine a man's character.

and even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to her

Suspending moral judgement is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity. Not that the novelist utterly denies that moral judgement is legitimate, but that she refuses it a place in the novel.

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

I do love the idea of ritual.

I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

I love Kashi. I eat cereal like a little kid. I carry it in my purse.

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

Mr. Salton had all his life been an early riser, and necessarily an early waker.

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

Fasting is] a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...

Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit

Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.

Courage is a habit that is learned by acting courageously whenever the quality of courage is required.

If someone is doing better than you are today, it is because they have developed a habit of thinking and acting that you have not learned. And whatever other people have learned, you can learn as well.

This discipline of systematic time planning can be very helpful to you. Many people have told me that the habit of taking a couple of hours at the end of each week to plan the coming week has increased their productivity dramatically and changed their lives completely. This technique will work for you as well.