Quotes About Habit

is biological, but we don't always realize that the ability to sleep is a learned skill.

The solitude became a habit, the habit became the man, and it crushed him into a shadow.

Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.

up on time every day, something I hadn't

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end.

It is the sea pursues a habit of shores.

It's amazing—once a problem improves, people often stop doing what caused it to improve. Once you feel better, you stop taking your medicine.

Every night instead of watching television, Sandburg would read to his family." "I sure hope Mom doesn't start that," Michael muttered.

yellow fingers because he smoked a lot. And he danced

was Aristotle who said it: "All human actions have one or more of seven causes," and then he named them: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.

There is a view," he said. "You will admire it." A command. All wrong. He meant for her to hear that he wanted her to see the view, but no. By habit, he demanded that she accompany him. "I should like for you to see it. Please.

The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway ?" "Yes," he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him," and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him, too." " Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor." "In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

Familiarity is the father of acceptance.

Habit is stronger than reason

The athlete doesn't stop smoking and start training. He starts training and finds he has stopped smoking.

Nothing is more to mastery than practice and skills. Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.

Errors sanctified by long usage are not easily relinquished.

Those who still profess the rule of hope, teach optimism only by force of habit, without believing in what they say.