Quotes About Habit

Did he ever--try?' Mingus shrugged. 'He was like you.' What's that mean?' Means he tried.' Of course. The ring was not a neutral tool. It judged its wearer: Aaron Doily flew drunkenly, and Dylan flew like a coward, only when it didn't matter, at the Windles' pond. So if had attuned to Robert Woolfolk's chaos. Don't tell me,' said Dylan. 'He flew sideways.' Mingus left it vague. He'd always made it his habit to protect their honor against one another--Dylan, Arthur, Robert. To say nothing.

Sometimes it's better not to think in questions, but I can't seem to get out of the habit.

Mark Twain said that quitting smoking is among the easiest things one can do; he did it all the time. I would add vegetarianism to the list of easy things.

Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity. For some, that irrationality leads to a kind of resignation. Food

frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.

El contacto y el hábito de Tlön han desintegrado este mundo. Encantada por su rigor, la humanidad olvida y torna a olvidar que es un rigor de ajedrecistas, no de ángeles.

Première raison de la servitude volontaire, c'est la coutume

No se puede negar que la naturaleza no tenga en nosotros gran influencia como para llevarnos donde quiere y hacernos bien o mal nacidos; pero hay que confesar que tiene sobre nosotros menor poder que la costumbre, porque lo natural, por bueno que sea, se pierde si no es cuidado, y la educación nos hace siempre a su manera, como ésta sea, a pesar de la naturaleza" Página 26, Discurso sobre la servidumbre voluntaria

The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

Common sense is rarely common practice.

Everything depends on what we would rather do than change.

Our habits of thought are stronger than strait-waistcoats. We walk about with habit-coloured spectacles before our eyes, and see everything as we are accustomed to see it.' He

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

Normally, routine is the common element of daily life everywhere, the element that prevents man from reexamining his circumstances, because human beings are creatures of habit. People become accustomed to, and learn to live with, not only good things but also those that are – even in their own eyes – undesirable.

The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.

I once saw ten minutes of The Big Breakfast and it was quite enough to convince me that television in the morning was like drinking in the morning: only real addicts could possibly do it without throwing up.

Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

Every man has a pattern - I don't care what they say. They don't like to admit it, but they do.

My inability to stick with any journal or calendar has been a pattern for God-since-forever.

When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.