Quotes About Habit

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.

I usually have three fried eggs every morning. It always has to be three: two is just not enough, and three won't put me over edge.

I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

I don't eat fruit.

My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.

Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit habitum.

Our civilization appears to've fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.

Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything which might lift them out of that false serenity.

Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

We say that a given habit grows on us. Really it grows in us, becomes second nature.

But you get used to the air alright in the end. When you're here for the second or third time you'll hardly notice how oppressive the air is.

This getting up early," he thought, "makes a man quite idiotic.

This evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom.

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.

Investing in your long-term health means cultivating the skills to prepare your own meals, developing healthy eating habits and a willingness to make time to exercise. The earlier you embrace these habits, the healthier you will be in your 50s, 60s and beyond.

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.

Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it's much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.