Quotes About Habit

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

although there may occur a few stages in his argument which are so trite that he can go through them by rote, much of his argument is likely never to have been constructed before. He has to meet new objections, interpret new evidence and make connections between elements in the situation which had not previously been co-ordinated. In short he has to innovate, and where he innovates he is not operating from habit.

Knowing I should get into the habit of praying on my knees before bed, I shrugged and instead huddled under the bedcovers, the rose clasped in my hands close to my heart. The stem was very long, with all thorns removed, and an old Venetian saying came to mind: The longer the stem, the greater the love.

Develop the habit of initiating change. You'll be better prepared for whatever comes your way.

The way to living without judgments is simply to see the truth about them: They don't serve us or others. The ego leads us to believe they are important, relevant, and useful, and they just aren't. Once we see this, we are free to not indulge in them. They may arise in the mind out of habit, but eventually, if we don't give them our attention, this habit of thinking and talking about others will subside.

Se se suprimissem a muitos amores as guarnições da literatura, a cópia dos gestos, os motivos do útil, os mecanismos do hábito, encontrar-se-ia como único e verdadeiro fundamento, a avidez do coito. O homem é um varrão que se envergonha da sua suinidade.

It's a disgusting habit, and it causes weak men to make strong excuses.

All vampires smoke. Smoking's high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

if you stick with the Word and keep growing, your flesh can develop the habit of righteousness just like it developed the habit of unrighteousness. Don't starve your spirit

Procrastination is a dangerous habit to develop, and it carries a high cost not only to our schedules but also to our hearts, spiritual lives, relationships, and finances. There's a snowball effect of delayed tasks. And as they accumulate, we are further from the life we want and from the person we want to be. We even procrastinate when God gives us an assignment, and then we walk in disobedience. Which creates entirely new issues.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

Apologizing. — A very desperate habit, — one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcoming is from his apology. It is mighty presumptuous on your part to suppose your small failures of so much consequence that you must make a talk about them.

I never drank anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Don't drink coffee in the morning. It will keep you awake until noon.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

Real happiness is more of a habit than a goal, more of an attitude than an attainment. It is the companion of cheerfulness, not the creature of circumstance. Happiness is what overtakes us when we forget ourselves, when we learn to open our eyes in optimism and close the door in the face of defeat.