Quotes About Habit

I do not masturbate often. Though at times I do so almost without being aware of it, actually.

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. Actual formal considerations are almost beyond my capacity. Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately you are always bad before you can get a little better.

What they do at 6:00 a.m. is anyone's guess. I only know that they're incredibly self-righteous about it and talk about the dawn as if it's a personal reward, bestowed on account of their great virtue.

In my experience, it was hard to write without your preferred tools, but impossible to write without a cigarette.

Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.' A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed. They spook easy, Hobbs said. Yes, well, people tend to do that when you come up behind them shouting, Good God. It's just a habit, I guess.

When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

La repetición es un factor esencial, no sólo para adiestrar a los animales, sino también a los humanos.

Change becomes a habit and habits are hard to change. I

I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.

I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.

I haven't taken into account how much I drink. I do drink a lot when I am on stage anyway. You will see me come back and have sips of water. I haven't taken into account how much.

I'd say I watch a fair amount of TV, but I'm not a TV addict by any means.

I need to stop but I'm seriously addicted to shoes.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

No addiction is good.

I have a healthy addiction to binge-watching TV.

I've always had an addictive nature.

I'm always going to have an addictive personality.

I've got an addictive personality.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

I'm actually not really adventurous when it comes to eating so I stick to things I like.

I wake up sometimes and roll over and sleep until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep.

I don't use an alarm. I wake up naturally at 7 A.M.