Quotes About Habit

We would like to gently expand the technique of intuition because it admits change that remains sincere to experience without depending on the past. Intuition reveals the negative space of habit, carving an urgent threshold from the commonplace.

The same road always leads to the same place. If we get on it expecting to go somewhere different, we'll be disappointed, won't we? As you said, it isn't very smart. ...Do the same things, get the same results. Simple, stupid.

funny how what you're used to seems like it's right even if it's bad.

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

But don't you see, pervading the letter and guiding the pen, the great intellectual and moral defect of the present day? I mean, the habit of dwelling on appearances, not on realities, of preferring the report to the bullet, and the echo to the report.

Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short.

It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

I have always collected my thoughts on Sunday, a habit enforced in my childhood when my father gave up on the church and turned to my own education with an energy that must be called unpleasant.

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits, which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.1 Leopold von Ranke

So much of his life seemed to be like this now, a blur of days without anything to define them from each other, like episodes of a soap he watched out of habit, even though none of the characters interested him.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Let's give up our worst vices with the understanding that in about a month we'll indulge them with twice the fervor.

She walk like a bad bi..., talk like a bad bi.... Go and get her hair and sh.. fixed is a habit.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

Winning is a habit. Winners always stay positive. His perception is it may be difficult but not impossible. He never sees pain in problem, he always seeks solution for problem. He never waits for things to happen, he makes it happen.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

The greatest virtue that one should try to cultivate is the habit of self-reliance.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

If you don't develop a habit of waking up before the rest of the world, you won't be able to change the world.