Quotes About Habit

Nasty habit, hurling half-digested food around like that. So unsanitary. And this was a guardian of public safety, too.

ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before.

When you meditate consistently and with proper instructions and effort, you are training yourself to overcome the power of old habits. In particular, the habits of inattention, distraction, and absence

it's amazing what you can get used to.

It was still years before Desdemona, cutting cucumbers, would lean against the corner of the kitchen table and, without realizing it, would lean in a little harder, and after that would find herself taking up that position every day, the table corner snug between her legs.

TANs could be crucial to the acquisition of new behavioral skills in cognitive-behavioral therapy. In neurological terms, we could say that cognitive-behavioral therapy teaches people purposefully to alter the response contingencies of their own TANs. This is a crucial point. Such therapy teaches people to alter, by force of will, the response habits wired into their brains through TANs.

The more often you act in these unhealthy ways, the more you teach your brain that what is simply a habit (a learned behavior) is essential to your survival.

Avoidance itself is a compulsion.

Mitch woke up the next morning the way he always did: badly.

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you day in and day out that makes the difference.

It's not what you do once in a while it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

Obi?nuin?a te face orb la tot ceea ce nu vrei s? vezi.

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight. We always go out on Fridays. It's Thursday, Alvis. You are so tied to routine.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time... I can't live without it now.

I wanted to be consistent with my exercise, so I committed to working out for 30 days in a row, no matter what.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.