logo

Quotes About Habit

Die Gewohnheit ist ein Seil. Wir weben jeden Tag einen Faden, und schließlich können wir es nicht mehr zerreißen.
~ Thomas Mann
Le sembrerà stupido, ma è una cosa che dico sempre. É un mio vizio. Insomma, mi dispiace
~ Thomas Pynchon
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I have faded into the habit of secretly existing under your skin. It is unbelievably dark under there; I am happy.
~ Katherine Mansfield
When she is not serving she sits on a stool with her face turned, always, to the window. Her dark-ringed eyes search among and follow after the people passing, but not as if she was looking for somebody. Perhaps, fifteen years ago, she was; but now the pose has become a habit. You can tell from her air of fatigue and hopelessness that she must have given them up for the last ten years, at least.…
~ Katherine Mansfield
Whatever you do repeatedly," he writes, "has the power to shape you, has the power to make you over into a different person— even if you're not totally engaged' in every minute!
~ Kathleen Norris
Too much reading is a bad habit. No one likes a girl who squints.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Edgar Bergen
~ Kathryn Caskie
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. —George Washington Carver scientist
~ Kathryn Petras
Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed." Murray quipped, "She doesn't have a right side." "Hey, you know where that term came from?" Jules asked. Sophie smiled at the probie. "Where?" "Left-handed people used to be considered defective. So family members tried to break the habit. They'd push the lefty's bed to the wall and made him get up on the opposite side, causing the person to be cranky.
~ Kathryn Shay
Feel free to pass this on to your friends or family to so all of us can be inspired and motivated together. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
~ Kathy Collins
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun
~ Kathy Collins
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle The
~ Kathy Collins
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
~ Kathy Collins
I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier." "I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief," Adrian groused. "I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.
~ Katie MacAlister
I am a great believer in variations on the routine.
~ Kaye Gibbons
I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you. You don't need to go out of your way to sabotage yourself or get a friggin' drug habit or date a psycho.
~ burr billy
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.
~ burroughs edgar rice ii
Once a junky, always a junky. You can stop using junk, but you are never off after the first habit.
~ burroughs william s ii
In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.
~ buxton charles
I am trying to quit smoking. Me too. But, I'd like something in my hands now. You have something in your hands now. Me? Me.
~ Caio Fernando Abreu
As the author Tim Ferriss once wrote: "Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things.
~ Cal newport
Every appealing headline clicked or intriguing link tabbed is another metaphorical pull of the slot machine handle.
~ Cal newport
the rhythmic philosophy. This philosophy argues that the easiest way to consistently start deep work sessions is to transform them into a simple regular habit. The goal, in other words, is to generate a rhythm for this work that removes the need for you to invest energy in deciding if and when you're going to go deep.
~ Cal newport