Quotes About Habit

Patricia Ryan Madson

For instance, it tends to be easier for us to picture how frequently eating a load of greasy fast food meals is going to risk our heart health, but it's harder for us to recognize how not exercising can place us at the same health risk. While we may actively avoid those oily take-out in an attempt to maintain a healthy lifestyle, we aren't as likely to start an exercise regimen to support that same goal. It just doesn't have the same psychological impact.

Too many of the men and women serving in Congress were political opportunists by habit, inclination, and experience. When a president was popular, they crowded in close, hoping to share in the limelight. But at the first sign of trouble or weakness they were only too eager to join the pack baying for his blood.

Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.

But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

old habits die slow deaths.

But old habits die slow deaths.

When they'd drawn their swords on me, I'd raised my hands. It's a good habit to have when anyone points something sharp at you.

He shrugged, facing the fire. "But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

Pero los humanos somos animales de costumbres. Tendemos a caminar por los surcos que nos vamos labrando.

It's an annoying habit I picked up from a student who was too clever for his own good." He smiled.

But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves. Perhaps I even viewed it as fair.

Los humanos somos animales de costumbres. Tendemos a caminar por los surcos que nos vamos labrando.

we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed them you were willing to push back, at which point you would earn their respect.

Quand on me demande pourquoi je fume, je réponds que c'est parce que j'aime tousser.

Such was life in France. People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed them you were willing to push back, at which point you would earn their respect.

whenever someone asks him why he smokes, he inevitably answers: "Because I like to cough.

La gente te importunaba por la fuerza de la costumbre,molestaba por el simple placer de molestar, y seguían pinchándote hasta que les demostrabas que tú también estabas dispuesto a fastidiarla, momento en el cual te ganabas su respeto.

One would have to be nearly unconscious not to see, or at least not to feel, that the house was no longer the same. "Habit", as one of Beckett's characters says, "it's a great deadener", And if the mind is unable to respond to the physical evidence, what will it do when confronted with the emotional evidence?

If you want to teach something quickly, reinforce it every time. But if you want it to stick once the teaching phase is over, reinforce it occasionally

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

The normal day is a 24-hour collection of little moments. Day after day, week after week, and year after year, these little moments set the character of a person's life.

If mindless eating is the problem, then paying attention to what you eat through salient feedback will be a big part of the solution.