Quotes About Habit

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

There was never any butter in our home. Just margarine. My parents acted like butter was lethal. I don't think I ever saw either one have a piece of butter. I would go over to friends' houses and down sticks of butter.

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

I wish I owned stock in Nicorette. I love Nicorette. Best invention ever.

I bite my split ends off in the car, which is gross. It's disgusting. I've probably got a fur ball in my stomach the size of a tennis ball.

I happen to have an expensive clothing habit, so, for me, designing clothes is a way to kill two birds with one stone.

It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

the lasting power of attentional habits is never to be underestimated

talking about the habit of constantly checking for updates on email/FB/Twitter, etc.) The check-in would eventually become a widespread attentional habit; ..... No other has compelled so many minds with such regularity - regularity that has the feel of a compulsion, of a mental itch constantly in need of being scratched.

Habit was stronger than emotion.

Aristotle had it right, but he was missing a number: "We are what we do repeatedly.

Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.

1—Make Your Bed (<3 minutes)

It's not what you know, it's what you do consistently.

Make this trade a habit. Let the small bad things happen and make the big good things happen.

Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.

Mastery doesn't come from an infographic. What you know doesn't mean shit. What do yo do consistently?

We are what we do repeatedly.

One of his favorite tools for habit tracking and behavioral modification Way of Life app.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

Like everything, there's a pain period when you step out of your comfort zone. And just when it seems toughest, and you most want to give up (because it's too much time/work/energy, because you don't understand it, because you don't trust it), if you push through that moment, immediately afterward you break free and it becomes a habit that you feel you've been doing all your life (and know you should have been doing all your life).