Quotes About Habit

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

Perhaps the habit of intrigue is catching--in the air or the walls. Like secret passages, only in the mind.

I am a chronic apologizer. It doesn't matter if I think I've done something wrong or not.

the kind of person who liked to have two cigarettes going at the same time.

I liked to read about five books at a time and leave them open to my place.

Consistency- you can't buy it. It can only be created at the individual level in the moment, moment to moment through the law of compounding.

His mind could fixate on a problem like that — anything, really — and not let go. As if controlling one element of his world would keep him from ruin. It was a bad habit that blinded him to other things that could harm him. A tendency towards obsession was hardwired into his brain and would likely be his undoing if he couldn't learn to outsmart it.

Hearts been jumping just like a rabbit. Blood keeps pumping but that's just habit.

As if controlling one element of his world would keep him from ruin. It was a bad habit that blinded him to other things that could harm him.

nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is a habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

I say 'sorry' all the time. I just throw it into sentences.

I hate the beep beep of the car, when I put in motion and I have not fasten my seat belt. From how annoying this sound is to me every morning, I understand immediately how the day will be.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Coffee isn't just a source of pleasure for me: it is something I rely on to get me through the day.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parking spaces. I don't like to step on the blue lines. I always step over them. I don't know what the deal is. I don't know if it's a fear of injury, or a disrespectful thing, or if I just don't want to think about something like that happening.

The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.

People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly and of changing these decisions quickly and often.