Quotes About Habit

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

I can't do coffee, but I can do Dr. Pepper.

I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.

'The Power of Habit' is the exact kind of non-fiction I love. It's smart and interesting, and it changes your perception how you do what you do or why you are who you are.

I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

I love grocery shopping. It's one of my favorite things. I don't want to become an ordering-food-online person.

Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.

If we pass now from physical nature to the moral world, we still find ourselves subject to the same deceptions of appearance, to the same influences of spontaneity and habit. But the distinguishing feature of this second division of our knowledge is, on the one hand, the good or the evil which we derive from our opinions; and, on the other, the obstinacy with which we defend the prejudice which is tormenting and killing us.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.

nulla dies sine linea.

man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...

Character is simply habit long continued.

There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an enthusiast.

In our normal, everyday forms of consciousness, we suffer form what [William] James calls a 'lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self.' Insofar as the self that encases the seed of a wider consciousness like a husk is seen as 'conventionally healthy,' cracking it open to uncover the higher part leaves the individual exposed to neurosis; but then, as James reminds us and as Jung himself knew, this may well be the chief condition for receptivity to these higher realms.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

Break the leg of a bad habit.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who, before anything has reared its ugly head, have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies. The habit fitted snugly into my well-established world of make-believe.

When acts have become instinctive, they have become invincible.

It wasn't like he was purposely being an asshole. It just came naturally to him.