Quotes About Habit

Lock in one habit so it becomes part of your life, and you can effectively ride the routine with less wear and tear on yourself. The hard stuff becomes habit, and habit makes the hard stuff easy.

The fact of the matter is that aiming discipline at the right habit gives you license to be less disciplined in other areas.

You know from reading the book that it takes on average 66 days to create a new habit, so approach this accordingly.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine-in other words, a habit.

The only thing that any of the two-dozen-plus gumshoes could come up with was a photograph of the president smoking a cigarette after telling the country he had quit that habit.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

But this inertia often causes you to use a tool because you know it, rather than because it's the right tool.

Routine is necessary for efficiency; breaking routine is necessary for adaptation.

We become what we consistently do.

I recalled the old saw about why reporters always whistle when they are on the toilet; it's the only way they can remember which end to wipe.

I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean...

The habit of creativity is more powerful than talent alone.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Unfortunately, deprivation diets don't work for three reasons: 1) Our body fights against them; 2) our brain fights against them; and 3) our day-to-day environment fights against them.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside; "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of GOD, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. That we should not wonder if, in the beginning, we often failed in our endeavors, but that at last we should gain a habit, which will naturally produce its acts in us, without our care, and to our exceeding great delight.

That in order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

He panned the streams for gold. Some winters he stayed with John Evans at Trevelin and swapped dirty nuggets for flour. He was a crack shot. He shot trout from the rivers; a cigarette packet from the police commissioner's mouth; and had the habit of picking off ladies' high-heels.

All of us tend to gravitate to the familiar, even when the familiar is unhealthy or destructive. We are drawn to what we were raised with.

We ignore familiar patterns in ordinary contexts, so much so that we forget large portions of our days, which are spent doing routine things like brushing our teeth or getting dressed.

Good or bad, we are attracted to things that are familiar.

It is easy to become so engrossed with the mere mechanics of business as to lose the habit of thought.