Quotes About Habit

Na província, não há escolha nem comparação a fazer: o hábito de ver as fisionomias dá-lhes uma beleza convencional. Transportada para Paris, uma mulher que passa por bonita no interior não desperta a menor atenção, porque não é bela senão pela aplicação do provérbio: Em terra de cegos, quem tem um olho é rei.

In spite of all this love-making, by the end of this year, as delightful as it was swift, Sommervieux felt one morning the need for resuming his work and his old habits. His wife was expecting their first child. He saw some friends again. During the tedious discomforts of the year when a young wife is nursing an infant for the first time, he worked, no doubt, with zeal, but he occasionally sought diversion in the fashionable world.

Already I begin to drop convent habits for those of society. I spend the evening writing to you till the moment for going to bed arrives. This has been postponed to ten o'clock, the hour at which my mother goes out, if she is not at the theatre. There are twelve theatres in Paris.

Were it not for the cabarets, would not the Government be overturned every Tuesday? Happily, by Tuesday, this people is glutted, sleeps off its pleasure, is penniless, and returns to its labor, to dry bread, stimulated by a need of material procreation, which has become a habit to it.

A thing worthy of note is the natural intrepidity of lawyers. Whether from the habit of receiving a great many persons, or from the deep sense of the protection conferred on them by the law, or from confidence in their missions, they enter everywhere, fearing nothing, like priests and physicians.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

When memory appeared, the effect was dramatic. A multicelled creature could quickly store experience in a nervous system's circuitry. This opened the way for a swift reprogrammer zoologist Richard Dawkins calls the meme*—a habit, a technique, a twist of feeling, a sense of things, which easily flips from brain to brain.

Starbucks is intensely personal. Aside from brushing their teeth, what else do so many people do habitually every day? They drink coffee. Same time. Same store. Same beverage. There's a special relationship millions have developed with our brand, our people, our stores, and our coffee. Preserving that relationship is an honorable but enormous responsibility.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

I have become fixed in my customary vices.

Ahí estaban los libros, en el cuarto de estar. Los libros de leer solían acabar en el dormitorio, en el suelo en filas, como enfermos en la sala de espera del médico.

We tend to take what is familiar for what is natural

THE EXERCISES These are quite unlike conventional keep-fit exercises. They are habit breakers. They require mental rather than physical effort. They are designed to examine and remedy the tense and over-effortful way in which you have been making everyday actions, and to encourage your body to revert to its natural, tension-free state.

The family got so used to finding the salt in the pepper shaker and vice versa that they would always shake a small amount onto their hand as a test prior to putting it on their food.

Entrepreneurs are, by definition, active types, so how is it that so much business writing sags with the passive voice? ...If you are using the passive voice to evade responsibility, start owning up. If you are using it out of habit or laziness, or because you just didn't think about it, start thinking about it.

Our sexuality is body, culture, age, learning, habit, fantasies, worries, passions, and the relationships in which all these elements combine. That's why sexuality can change with age, partner, experience, emotions, and sense of perspective.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

The best exercise for you is the one you will do regularly

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.

slogans about smoking: "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.

Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.

one of my late wife's slogans about smoking: "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.