Quotes About Habit

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit — like watching the news — from your life.

A relationship needs constant attention. It's a living thing, not just a habit. You've got to keep on top of it.

One thing that has remained constant, across four centuries, has been the desire for a British person to fill a silence with talk of the weather, and whenever I have lived there I was no exception to this rule.

In one life she only ate toast.

How to get out of bed Wake up. Pick up phone. Stare at phone for 72 minutes. Sigh. Get out of bed. Alternatively, once in a while, try skipping stages two to four.

Positive thinking needs to be a daily practice. It will not happen overnight, but rather it needs to be a conscious effort of being aware of your thoughts and statements to determine if they are coming from a negative or a positive place. Being consciously aware of your thoughts is the first step before it can enter the unconscious mind and become a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Every bad habit of the Right was on display in the Capitol riot that left five dead, $30 million in damage, close to three hundred arrested, and Capitol Hill an armed camp.

our lives is almost always a result of those things we habitually think and those things we habitually do. Life is the fruit of discipline, or lack of it. We are our habits. For example, you cannot separate Tiger

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

Thus, little by little, through training the mind, you can change your habitual way of being.

Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'.

The actions in which I habitually engage incorporate their instruments and make them participate in the original structure of my own body. Moreover, my own body is the primordial habit, the one that conditions all others and by which they can be understood.

Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

His experiments proved that the best way to break a habit is to form a clear mental image of the desired end result, and to practice without effort towards reaching that goal. Dunlap found that either "positive practice" (refraining from the habit) or "negative practice" (performing the habit consciously and voluntarily) would have beneficial effect provided the desired end result was kept constantly in mind.

Learning the happiness habit, you become a master instead of a slave, or as Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

experiments proved that the best way to break a habit is to form a clear mental image of the desired end result, and to practice without effort toward reaching that goal.

The automatic mechanism then duplicates this successful response on future trials. It has "learned" how to respond successfully. It forgets its failures, and repeats the successful action without any further conscious thought—that is, as a habit.

21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to jell.

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

Well, 'I'm sorry' is just a thing to say, you see. I'm trying not to be so apologetic and obsequious all the time. It's just such a habit ...

Your dervish trade is strange. You sell words, which people buy out of fear or habit. He doesn't want to, or doesn't know how to sell words. He can't even sell silence. Or talent. And he doesn't care about success.

They don't actually believe in anything, you understand, so much as they have the habit of believing.