Quotes About Habit

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov's habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.

She just didn't think it decent to live in a place where there were no coffee shops to have breakfast in when she woke up

And yet people went on thinking this way, kind of in the way that someone who has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness will go on getting up and going to work every morning, not so much out of habit as because the knowledge of impending doom makes them wish to assert an identity.

Some of them, out of habit, looked at him soberly; etiquette dictated that you give all sympathy to the oppressed.

Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it. —Sir Charles Petrie, THE VICTORIANS

You could get used to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up

given all the other changes he's gone through, why the hell shouldn't he become a cigarette smoker while he's at it? Maybe next week he'll be shooting heroin. For something disgusting and lethal, cigarettes are amazingly enjoyable.

I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

Marriages, both good and bad, were defined by repetition.

You say that every morning." Miles shrugged. "You're late every morning." "Then wake me up sooner." "I have a better idea—why don't you go to sleep when I tell you to?" "I'm not tired then. I'm only tired in the mornings." "Join the club.

Habit and tradition often render change undesirable.

So . . . do you?" He persisted. "Yes," she said finally with a mystified laugh. "I wrap my head in a towel." He nodded, satisfied. "I thought so." "Did you ever think about cutting back on the caffeine?" Miles shook his head. "Never.

If there was one thing she'd learned, it was that people didn't change. They liked what they liked, even if they didn't understand why.

It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.

I'm a big fan of rituals in general because I'm a firm believer in muscle memory.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

I'm a nail biter and have been my whole life.

I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

I still bite my nails.