Quotes About Habit

These smokes can take it, they're used to it.

Wolfe's head moved. 'You've seen that play, Archie?' 'Yes, sir. I would say a quarter to ten, maybe twenty to." 'Have you seen it, Saul?' 'Yes, sir. Twenty to ten.' 'You know that?' 'Yes, sir. Just my habit of noticing things.' 'Don't disparage it. The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold--if you have one...

Everyone reading this book will have heard the expression sleep on it as advice for tackling a problem. There's truth to this saying because your unconscious has the ability to help you see things from a different perspective. Your unconscious is also where most of your mental habits function. Whenever we learn to do something with our minds, it becomes automated, and we become unconsciously skilled at it.

When you practice using your brain in this way, you will find yourself feeling really good a lot more often. Achieving personal freedom is all about developing new mental habits and skills and getting used to mentally running your brain the way you choose to run it.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

You are what you practice most.

Once you've bought a novel in your pajamas, there's no turning back.

addicted to a rate of stimulations per second that she hasn't entirely kicked.

I work to support my habit of writing.

But I'll feel better about you in Connecticut. People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake. They can devote their whole lives to it.

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

he had lived within the narrow grooves of habit so long that he had learned to see in his dark world without the aid of eyes

Dalmatia," Nico said, making Jason jump. Holy Romulus . . . Jason wished he could put a bell around Nico di Angelo's neck to remind him the guy was there. Nico had this disturbing habit of standing silently in the corner, blending into the shadows.

If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own! You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing, only focusing on God's Word instead of your problem. No other habit can do more to transform your life ... than daily reflection on Scripture.

The single best and easiest thing you can do for your health is to recalibrate your taste buds and learn to enjoy pure clean water.

She heard him moving about the room; every sound indicating impatience and irritation. Another time she would have gone in at his request. She would, through habit, have yielded to his desire; not with any sense of submission or obedience to his compelling wishes, but unthinkingly, as we walk, move, sit, stand, go through the daily treadmill of the life which has been portioned out to us.

She would, through habit, have yielded to his desire; not with any sense of submission or obedience to his compelling wishes, but unthinkingly, as we walk, move, sit, stand, go through the daily treadmill of the life which has been portioned out to us.

Lo sentì agitarsi nella camera; ogni rumore indicava impazienza e irritazione. Una volta sarebbe rientrata, alla sua richiesta. Per abitudine, si sarebbe concessa al suo desiderio; non in senso di sottomissione o di obbedienza verso le sue richieste perentorie, ma senza pensarci, proprio come si cammina, ci si muove, ci si siede e ci si rialza, si sopporta insomma il tran tran quotidiano della vita che ci è stata assegnata.

Olive was in the habit of saying "honestly" so often that even a child could see that she must be deceitful. I marveled at her mother's prescience in having named her daughter after a green—with envy—cocktail garnish: hollow and bitter.

Smoking helped me think and calmed my nerves, which I had in excess.

every day she would probably have

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.