Quotes About Habit

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

Un mal hábito entra como un huésped, se une a la familia y, finalmente, se hace con el control.» El Talmud

Si alguna vez me suicido, será en domingo. Es el día más desalentador, el más insulso. Quisiera quedarme en la cama hasta tarde, por lo menos hasta las nueve o las diez, pero a las seis y media me despierto solo y ya no puedo pegar los ojos. A veces pienso qué haré cuando toda mi vida sea domingo. Quién sabe, a lo mejor me acostumbro a despertarme a las diez.

Se apuró a terminar el tercer café y en seguida miró el reloj. Hay una especie de reflejo automático en eso de hablar de la muerte y mirar en seguida el reloj.

La costumbre de amar suele limar el amor, debilitarlo. Hay que amar al margen de cualquier costumbre, improvisadamente.

amor es más seguro cuando nos toma de sorpresa e incluso desorienta a la costumbre.

Toby thought. It was a painful process, since he was not in the habit of thinking very much about anything.

Like love was a habit you couldn't break.

If you want to break the sin habit, you'd better establish a prayer habit.

Tiene algo de diferente la oración? Es un hábito que se debe cultivar. Una disciplina que hay que desarrollar. Una habilidad que hace falta practicar. Y aunque no quiero reducir la oración fervorosa a llevar la cuenta del tiempo que se pasa en ella, si quieres llegar a ser un experto en ella, es posible que te lleve diez mil horas. Una cosa sí sé con toda seguridad: mientras más grande es el sueño, más ardientemente tendrás que orar.

You are one habit away from getting into shape. You are one habit away from financial freedom. You are one habit away from mental health. You are one habit away from a happy, healthy marriage. You are one habit away from any goal you set. The only catch? It has to be a daily habit!

Base your preferred diet on any traditional eating style you like; the point is that once you get into the habit of eating sanely, it becomes second nature.

We therefore tend to rely on willpower alone. This never works because the ideal sequence above is opposed by a stronger and more primitive one: Stimulus – Reaction. Without the right structures to keep it under control, Stimulus – Reaction will always tend to overwhelm Thought – Decision – Action.

2. Identify the person's modus operandi—the specific way he acts out his crazy.

Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even when the patient is clearly without a pulse.

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Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed — in a modified way — 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.