Quotes About Habit

a behavior repeated because it seems to produce reinforcement, even though it is actually unnecessary

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

You accused me of murder. Do you make a habit of bringing schoolgirls into an interview room with murder suspects?' He waved his hand. 'Oh, I was only joking about that. I don't really think you murdered someone. Unless you did, in which case I reserve the right to say I knew it all along.

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.

Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he's even read some of them twice . What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Every time you practice a weakness, you feed it. And the things you feed grow in your life

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

Si continuamos haciendo las cosas como de costumbre, acabaremos padeciendo una crisis social y ecológica de consecuencias catastróficas

People who are successful are not only willing to get uncomfortable, but they know they have to make a habit of it if they want to stay successful.

constantly ask yourself "can I let this one go?" By becoming aware of what we do, we can investigate why we do it and then choose to keep it or drop it, instead of blindly reacting through habit.

Our "realities" are determined by how we habitually perceive ourselves and our worlds.

We get so used to, and so identify with, our broken records that we don't even notice they exist or that they're not even real.

The key here is to be specific and consistent—figure out what makes you feel the most mighty and make a habit of doing those things.

Belief is a muscle, and when you're changing a stubborn old bad habit and really stretching yourself, a hell-bent decision is the perfect personal trainer to get your belief in shape.

When you repeat something enough times, you establish new neural pathways in the brain that your habit flows through effortlessly and automatically, allowing you to literally fuggetaboutit.

If you're always late, start being early.