Quotes About Habit

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

The best way to stop smoking is to just stop — no ifs, ands or butts.

What is a vice? Merely a taste you do not share.

The beauty of Delicate Arch explains nothing, for each thing in it's way, when true to it's own character, is equally beautiful. If Delicate Arch has any significance it lies, I will venture, in the power of the odd and unexpected to startle the senses and surprise the mind out of their ruts of habit, to compel us into a reawakened awareness of the wonderful-that which is full of wonder.

obedience is such a fundamental habit of the contemporary American mind that any kind of disobedience is regarded as a form of insanity.

The right dream. You may dream of creating that one new idea that will solve lots of problems (and lead to fame and fortune). But the better dream is to see yourself standing on what seems to be the summit and climbing higher by taking one small step after another. That modest habit of effective thinking will help you accomplish things you never dreamed possible.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves.

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it.

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day — by dying.

The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.

Don't drink coffee in the morning. It will keep you awake until noon.

You know you're a skydiver when you can't put on a backpack without checking for leg straps.

I do my work at the same time each day — the last minute.

And it's so natural that a man shouldn't have taken so many chocolates as a woman.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We'd pass out every time we saw— actually saw— a flower. Imagine if we only got to see a cumulonimbus cloud or Cassiopeia or a snowfall once a century: there'd be pandemonium in the streets. People would lie by the thousands in the fields on their backs.

The mind craves ease; it encourages the senses to recognize symbols, to gloss. It makes maps of our kitchen drawers and neighborhood streets; it fashions a sort of algebra out of life. And this is useful, even essential - X is the route to work, Y is the heft and feel of a nickel between your fingers. Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We'd pass out every time we saw - actually saw - a flower.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

He wasn't being deliberately offensive. It was just that offensive was his default mode.