Quotes About Habit

You would think that anyone would jump at the chance to escape shame. But that isn't the way it happens. Though shamed people are happy to guide others out of their dark prisons, they are always sure to get back to their own prisons by nightfall. That's home. That's what they are used to.

As a way to practice saying "no," consider small fasts. You could give up food, desserts, computer games, or other activities important to you. This is not a way to punish yourself for what you have done. It is simply a way to have more practice at self-control. Remember that self-control is a skill that develops with practice.

I thought we were losing the habit of wars," Eunice said glumly, stooping to adjust one of the irrigation lines running into her plant beds. "We are, slowly." Chiku took a seat. "But it's still in our blood, like some fucking horrible disease we're still carrying around with us.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Las dependencias, supongo, son vicios difíciles de quebrar.

aquilo que nos modifica não são os fatos extraordinários que acontecem uma só vez, mas sim esse hábito, essa longa aceitação das coisas contra as quais deixamos de nos revoltar.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

The occultist G. I. Gurdjieff (1877–1949) demanded that a student, who was an inveterate smoker, quit smoking, and until he quit, Gurdjieff forbade any visit from him. The student fought for four years against the habit. When the student managed to overcome his habit, he very proudly presented himself in front of the teacher: "So! I quit smoking!" Gurdjieff responded, "Now, smoke!

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.

Beethoven's practice of counting out exactly sixty beans for his morning cup of coffee

Nothing is more common than that a man shall know perfectly well that some possibly trivial habit stands in the way of something that it is his interest or his duty to pursue; but the knowledge lies inoperative in the outermost part of him. It is so in regard to graver things. The majority of the slaves of any vice whatsoever know perfectly well that they ought to give it up, and yet nothing comes of the conviction.

Why fight what's known to be decisive?Custom is despot of mankind.

Do you have to skulk about like that?" "No, I don't suppose I have to skulk about.... I simply enjoy doing so." "Well, it's a very vulgar habit.

she'd realized—too late—that the habit of loving him had long since replaced love itself.

Smoking helps you lose weight — one lung at a time!

There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they're in there.

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.

I don't leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either.

I never in my life watch 'Rick and Morty' unless I came home from school and it was on TV.

I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'