Quotes About Habit

For instance, if you train a dog to eat potatoes and then afterwards put a piece of meat in front of him, he'll snap at it, it's his nature. And if you give a man a little bit of authority he behaves just the same way, he snaps at it too.

Fumatul este o necesitate pentru b?rba?i, dar o cochet?rie pentru femei.

Tu trouves ça normal, Scrofa, d'habiter un monde où c'est la colère qui te rend vivant ?

One of the most persistent problems of the day was "offensive feet," caused by the prevailing habit of washing feet only once a week. To combat this, Hollingsworth wrote, "Take one part muriatic acid to ten parts of water; rub the feet every night with this mixture before retiring to bed." To rid your mouth of the odor of onions, drink strong coffee.

By his own careful measure, he consumed up to two hundred grams of sugar a day, equivalent to forty-eight teaspoons.

That was morality ; things that made you disgusted afterwards. No, that must be immorality. That was a large statement. What a lot of bilge I could think up at night. What rot ! I could hear Brett say it. What rot ! When you were with the English you got into the habit of using English expressions in your thinking.

The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of early morning, sweeping out and mopping, and luck were all you needed. For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of, and you welcome them and resent the new things

How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.

The easiest way to get rid of an unwanted conditioned response is to substitute a better response.

You don't need to be drunk all the time to become an alcoholic ! . . . It's that little drink before dinner. That's what gradually poisons your whole system ! . . .

You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.

No, I'm afraid I'm like the guy who is always panhandling for a smoke. He hasn't even got the makings. He's got only the habit.

Roll. Tap. Tap. Tap

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Aga jah, Juku, selles on sul õigus küll, et eks see lugemine ole tõesti üks harjumus, sihuke harjumus, mis jääb külge ja pärast enam lahti ei saa, täpselt nagu suitsetamine. Aga suitsetamine on paha harjumus, lugemine on hea. Lugemise harjumus ei tee tervisele midagi. Suitsu sa teed?

Mi sono già scusato. Frequentando questa stimabile compagnia mi sono rassegnato a molte cose e abituato ad altrettante. Ma ho conservato l'abitudine di scusarmi una sola volta.»

Doing nothing all day—it's difficult at first. Being busy is a habit, and a hard one to break.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn't it? Everything else is artful.

The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break.

I imagine you'll have to wake up Catchpole first, Marcia," Alther commented. "Catchpole's on night duty, Alther. He's been awake all night." "Funny habit he's got, that Catchpole," said Alther pensively, "of snoring while he's awake. You'd think he'd find it irritating, wouldn't you?

Sometimes he asked Sandy questions, not expecting much of an answer, but because he wanted to make him think, hoping that it might become a habit.