Quotes About Habit

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

We believe there are certain things people "have," certain things people "do," and even certain things people "are." These beliefs do not necessarily reflect the structure of reality they simply reflect an habitual way of talking about reality.

Anna was too old to believe that people always lied for a reason. Mostly they lied because it was easy, felt good, or was habit.

Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all the world there was little but the force of habit in it.

Imagination is not entirely untrammelled and free to move at will without any rules to constrain it. In fact, the contrary is true. Imagination travels according to habit. Imagination has choice, but it chooses according to habit. Awake or asleep, man's imagination is constrained to follow certain definite patterns. It is this benumbing influence of habit that man must change; if he does not, his dreams will fade under the paralysis of custom.

It could be hail and gale outside. Mrs Quinty opened the windows. Then she took out these little wipes and wiped down the surface of the desk. That lady brought with her her own environment.

Perhaps because smoking can be a way of getting through the time, when you don't know how to endure things," said Frieda. "For a few minutes, that's what you're doing: you're smoking a cigarette.

Conscious craft turned into unconscious routine. When

I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that's all you will be. Live in a swamp and you'll grow webbed feet.

The power of human habit never failed to astonish her. How was it that two intelligent, decent people who basically loved each other could get so locked into a pattern of behavior that neither of them - or so she presumed - enjoyed? It was as if each knew the role he or she was expected to take and had no choice but to play it

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

Bob Klose left the band during the summer of 1965 at the insistence of both his father and his college tutors. He did surreptitiously play a few more times with us, but even though we were losing the person we considered our most proficient musician, it didn't seem like a major setback. This remarkable prescience – or sheer lack of imagination – was to become something of a habit.

Sometimes the body acclimitizes so thoroughly that we forget things have ever been different.

Saying what made people in power think well of you was as much a habit for Breguswith as showing her curves was for Gwladus.

He rested his palm on the pommel of his sword in what Peretur recognized not as a threat but the habit of a possessive man reassuing himself of his treasure. Mine. This is mine and you may not have it.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

Also, the reader will be pleased to know that our hero changed his linen every other day, and in summer, when the weather was very hot, EVERY day, seeing that the very faintest suspicion of an unpleasant odour offended his fastidiousness.

Quotes are just a Quotes, unless if you really do it in your daily life.

Have a salad at every meal. Once you adopt this habit, lunch or dinner without a raw vegetable seems incomplete. If you tire of lettuce, there are lots of leaves: watercress, radicchio, endive, escarole, dandelion, purslane. Try salads of shaved fennel and orange slices or lightly cooked vegetables, as in celeriac remoulade. At the farm, we have a plate of sliced tomatoes at every summer meal.

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.