Quotes About Habit

Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Form the habit of writing your thoughts. The mechanical element assists the power of concentration.

We said that there is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save himself. And, having saved himself, he will commit crimes for increasingly trivial reasons; he will commit them first out of duty, then from habit, and finally -for pleasure.

Najsmaczniejszy jest ten papieros przed ?niadaniem. Skraca ?ycie. Od wielu lat mozolnie skracam sobie ?ycie. I wszyscy ukradkiem skracaj? swoj? egzystencj?. Co? w tym musi by?. Jaki? wy?szy nakaz albo mo?e prawo natury przeludnionego globu.

Trzeba wstawa?. Trzeba podnie?? si? z ?ó?ka i wykona? pi?tna?cie czynno?ci, nad których sensem nie wolno si? zastanawia?. Naro?l automatycznych przyzwyczaje?. B?ogos?awiony rak bezmy?lnego ?adu tradycji.

In Aristotle's words, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

If you just do what you're doing, you're going to do what you do. Time to interrupt patterns.

The thing is, I suppose," he said, "that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.

You know something?" Frank said, after a moment. "You've got a bad habit of taking too much credit for the stuff other people do around you.

He picked out a card, examined it, tucked it back. "The thing is, I suppose," he said, "that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath." And looking up smiling, pushing his glasses up his nose: "And with all that philosophizing, I've forgotten whose go it was. Did I just put . . .

By the time he's forty, a man's either in the habit of being married or he's not.

The thing is (…) that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

apply an antidote, a positive alternative to the mental habit of the afflictive emotion.

left. If you drive to work or school along the same route every day, intentionally vary the way you go, exploring different streets and unfamiliar territory. This sounds simple, almost innocuous. But when we do a familiar task in a novel way, we stir a fresh awareness.

breaking free from a habit, no matter how seemingly trivial, can bring a shift in our awareness, inspiring a fresh attitude: beginner's mind, seeing things as if for the first time. And that fresh look gives us the option of doing things differently.

Bringing an automatic habit into awareness in order to change it is a crucial step.

The more often we repeat a mental pattern, the more likely it becomes in the future;

A mental state can last for but a moment, until another state rises to the top of the mind's hierarchy, or it can become a habitual frame of mind.

a simple principle: how our habitual patterns take shape and are reinforced. And it holds the secret of what we can do to break free of destructive habits.

situation that is even vaguely reminiscent of those that created an emotional habit can act as a trigger.

Is it love, or is it convenience?... She explained that connivence, habit, comfort, obligation- these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.

She explained that convenience, habit, comfort, obligation—these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.

explained that convenience, habit, comfort, obligation—these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.