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Quotes About Habit

We tend to give a moral weight to the things with which we're most comfortable, don't you think?
~ Ann Cleeves
I'm a historian by training, Jimmy. Telling the truth has become a habit.
~ Ann Cleeves
Everything is repetition in baseball. When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird.
~ Matt Kemp
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
~ David Mamet
When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.
~ Dick Costolo
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
~ Epictetus
If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.
~ Andrew Mason
I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.
~ Martha Plimpton
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
~ Loretta Young
I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.
~ Margrethe II of Denmark
I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.
~ Helen Mirren
Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.
~ Orison Swett Marden
One tip I like is don't forget your reusable bags when you go to the drug store or to the mall. I think most people think of the bags for the grocery store, but I try to take mine wherever I go.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
~ Albert Camus
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
~ Og Mandino
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
~ Jenny Craig
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
~ Mark Twain
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
~ F. Sionil Jose
I'm a whiskey drinker, but Cesaro is a coffee drinker.
~ Sheamus
I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again - and my wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but I don't really think about it too much.
~ Daphne Guinness
I kind of have a strange addiction to hair dryers. Like on the TV show, where they eat toilet paper or eat the wall or something - I'm addicted to hair dryers. Since I was 8 years old, I've used them to fall asleep. I love the white noise. I love the heat. It just puts me right to sleep.
~ Julia Fox