Quotes About Habit

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Make it a habit to ask for business referrals. There's nothing pushy about it. People won't give you referrals unless you deserve them.

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car. And I do that when I get onto a plane as well!

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

Even in the limo, I buckle my seatbelt. I got that seatbelt on before the car moves.

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

Thus we become less and less able to reside with even the most fleeting uneasiness or discomfort... This is our way of trying to make life predictable. Because we mistake what always results in suffering for what will bring us happiness, we remain stuck in the repetitious habit of escalating our dissatisfaction.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

The British habit of taking quinine as a prophylactic precaution against malaria developed into the evening "gin and tonic"—the gin being considered necessary to make the bitter-tasting quinine in the tonic water palatable.

it was born out of habits of mind produced by Christianity: that if you sacrificed yourself you would somehow attain the object of your desires. It was a knife of an idea, a cruel instrument of sacrifice...

Effectiveness, in other words, is a habit; that is, a complex of practices. And practices can always be learned.

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.

While catching up on the news is merely depressing to the citizen who has no stocks, it is a dangerous habit for the investor.

like an old married couple for whom bickering is the default mode.

He was a reader and recognized his habit of reading as obsessive and neurotic…

aloof , adj . It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: "What are you thinking?" It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

Why do you want to put more smoke inside of you?

i do not eat breakfast. i never eat breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was able to walk out the back door without eating breakfast first.

flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.

jed is not a smoker but he's smoked. i am not a smoker and i have never smoked

What?' he said. I'm sure he heard me perfectly well, but like most deaf people he's got in the habit of saying 'what?' automatically to every conversational gambit - I notice myself doing it sometimes.