Quotes About Habit

Once we are in a group that regularly reinforces exploratory thought, the routine becomes reflexive, running on its own. Exploratory thought becomes a new habit of mind, the new routine, and one that is self-reinforced.

Charles Duhigg, in The Power of Habit, offers the golden rule of habit change—that the best way to deal with a habit is to respect the habit loop: "To change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

Most of what we do daily exists in automatic processing. We have habits and defaults that we rarely examine, from gripping a pencil to swerving to avoid an auto accident. The challenge is not to change the way our brains operate but to figure out how to work within the limitations of the brains we already have.

Accordingly, the ninth principle: whenever possible, we should manage our thinking by embedding extensions in our everyday environments.

It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is nothing left for him now except to die, but that will take a while because he is a creature of habit, and he has got into the habit of being alive.

An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet.

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I've loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It's both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it's not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under his chair.

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of getting up earlier than the other fellow. But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.

The more we know about how to do something, the harder it is to learn how to do it differently

I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed – it soothed him.

In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

Como consecuencia me inclino a reservarme todos los juicios, un hábito que me ha abierto muchas naturalezas curiosas y me ha hecho víctima de no pocos veteranos aburridos.

know, Mother. Doesn't everybody clean their venetian blinds with a Q-tip twice a day? Duh!

Tanto tenho vivido sem ter vivido! Tanto tenho pensado sem ter pensado! Pesam sobre mim mundos de violências paradas, de aventuras tidas sem movimento. Estou farto do que nunca tive nem terei, tediento de deuses por existir. Trago comigo as feridas de todas as batalhas que evitei… Em mim o que há de primordial é o hábito e o jeito de sonhar.