Quotes About Habit

With shaken confidence in the consistency and legitimacy of what they take to be scientific research, people revert to ancient and erroneous habits of thought-post hoc ergo propter hot- reasoning, reliance on anecdotal evidence, false analogy, and simple rumor chasing.

An alcoholic promising not to drink again is roughly like anyone promising never to fart again

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

Beni bir gün unutacaksan, bir gün b?rak?p gideceksen bo?una yorma derdi, bo?una ma?aramdan ç?karma beni. Al??kanl?klar?m?, özellikle yaln?zl??a al??kanl???m? kaybettirme bo?una.

Al??kanl?ktan ba?ka bir ?ey bilmedikleri için, sizin de yoklu?unuza al??acaklard?r.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn't quite break.

Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for?

As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.

Habits were difficult to break. The habit of living, the habit of fear … even the habit of love.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. Forget talent. If you have it, fine. Use it. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter. As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

He was sitting in front of the kitchen fire, and after Elizabeth's taunt he cocked up a hind leg and carefully, ostentatiously, groomed his private parts, a habit which he often used with great effect to annoy his women folk.

There was not a single smoker in Europe before the sixteenth century, because until then there was no tobacco there. Very few women smoked until the twentieth century; now the habit is more popular among young women than among young men. To say that individual differences in smoking are half caused by genes is simply not true. It all depends on the environment in which the individual is living.

Apologizing — a very desperate habit — one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.