Quotes About Habit

Learn to recognize your own scripts. Play with them, poke at them, disrupt them.

forming a habit isn't all environmental—it's also mental.

what action triggers do is create an "instant habit." Habits are behavioral autopilot, and that's exactly what action triggers are setting up.

By preloading a decision, they created an instant habit.

Tweaking the environment is about making the right behaviors a little bit easier and the wrong behaviors a little bit harder.

The more instinctive a behavior becomes, the less self-control from the Rider it requires, and thus the more sustainable it becomes.

once a small step has been taken, and people have begun to act in a new way, it will be increasingly difficult for them to dislike the way they're acting.

Knowledge does not change behavior

This "moment-spotting" habit can be unnatural. In organizations, for instance, we are consumed with goals. Time is meaningful only insofar as it clarifies or measures our goals. The goal is the thing.

The status quo feels comfortable and steady because much of the choice has been squeezed out. You have your routines, your ways of doing things.

Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood.

Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Was man sich lange und oft genug denkt, verliert allen Schrecken. Gedanken nutzen sich ab wie Münzen, die von Hand zu Hand gehn, oder wie Vorstellungen, die man sich immer wieder vors innere Auge ruft.

A ciò che si è detto e ripetuto spesso, alla fine si crede.

When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside agency, and will not respond any longer to any effort that the will may make to regain its original power of control.

I can't imagine why you didn't memorize this route on the

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

A good old custom. Always fornicate Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.

In Paris there are wide cityscapes like nowhere else. Habit has made us indifferent to them. But those who wander around the city—keenly sniffing the air, looking to be moved, to be amazed—are very familiar with these places.

as if, one lover gone, I was opening up for an immediate replacement. Smack habit, love habit - what's the difference? They can both kill you. For the bus journey I fell in love with a woman who smiled at me. The motion of the bus made her thick mop of fair curls tremble. We talked about desperados. 'I am fatally attracted to them', I said. 'In fact, I probably am one'.

Forgetting takes practice…You have to work at it.

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