Quotes About Habit

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

I have to shave every day. If I don't, it's sort of like going to bed without brushing your teeth for me - but I'm a crazy person so maybe that's why.

I stretch and do my squats when I brush my teeth.

Brush your teeth often.

I equate exercising with brushing my teeth or taking a shower: It gets my day going.

Working out, for me, is like brushing my teeth. So, I can't cheat on that.

I do 100 squats while I brush my teeth.

France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.

I don't like the Sunday newspapers - I read them because I have to. 'Sunday Times,' 'Telegraph,' 'Independent' on Sunday - I find them heavy and too much! I prefer 'The Economist.'

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it, we reinforce the notion that reading is something we should do, but telly is something that we want to do.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

giving up caffeine would be like cutting off gasoline from a car engine.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Dietary research reveals that many people go off their nutritional diets on or about day 13—a Fibonacci number. Yet if they can pass critical day 13 and make it through to day 21, they usually will succeed in losing weight and establishing the new habit pattern that allowed them to lose the weight.

Automatically, without considering what he was doing, but with the same desire for comfort that had pushed him into this café, Strike pulled his phone out of his pocket again and called Robin . . .

He drank as though his beer was medicine, without pleasure, intent on the result.

His own habits of self-discipline, and his preference for cleanliness and order over squalor and chaos, had been forged largely in reaction to his mother's lifestyle. Strike had spent too many hours of his youth enduring the tedium of the perennially stoned to find either pleasure or excitement in the haze of drink, drugs and rock music that had been Leda's natural habitat.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

The brain can be a wonderful tool, can be a willing slave, as has been evidenced by some men, but of course it works poorly when it has not the habit of usage. An automobile can become a source of delight, but the first time you drive you are as apt to go up a tree as to go up the road.

A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one's mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods." —Mason Currey, in Daily Rituals

become all too familiar and

Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.