Quotes About Habit

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

I've never read an ebook. Print every time.

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

Most shows for me tend to be 'missable', because I work in the evenings, but if 'Come Dine With Me' is on I'll find it. Eight hundred channels, but I'll find it.

I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

I'm pretty disciplined. But your brain needs boredom. It needs routine.

I have a routine I go through on the days that I work, and I don't want to divert from that.

I hate to admit it, but anytime you're at a stoplight and your phone is within reach? You pick it up. It's become instinctual. Even if you put the phone down and walk out of the room, you're always aware of where it is. It's become an extension of you.

I don't like drawing characters facing right.

When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.

We like songs that are familiar.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

I love paan. I have been having it since I was a teenager.

I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

I think fitness and doing gym should be like brushing teeth everyday in the morning as it should come automatically without any excuse.

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

Dancing should be as much a part of our daily routine as brushing our teeth.

My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth.

I love Facebook. I could brush my teeth with Facebook.