Quotes About Habit

Marcie, you don't need to read books. It's just a dumb habit for introverts.

like everything, sanity came more easily with practice.

The thing you're doing by default is rarely the best possible version of the thing.

People have the false habit of putting an artificial gap between the spiritual and the financial. We cannot accept this habit because life is an integral whole which we should understand deeply.

a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

ACCUSTOMANCE  (ACCU'STOMANCE)   n.s.[accoûtumance, Fr.]Custom, habit, use. Through accustomance and negligence, and perhaps some other causes, we neither feel it in our own bodies, nor take notice of it in others.Boyle'sWorks.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.

stopped smoking

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

An old syllabus, an old word, an old policy: these habits hold despite the modifications. The modifications made in response to previous complaints can end up reproducing the structure the complaints were about.

don't smoke.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents' attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break.

we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know." "My mother," I told him, pushing the cart farther up the aisle as he lagged along beside, taking long, loping steps, "doesn't even like scrambled eggs. She only eats eggs Benedict.

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less.

Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.

Angelica,' said Harry, 'you're unique. I can't think of another female who would stage a farewell scene in a situation like this. In fact, in all my experience--' 'Stretching over many nations and five continents?' 'You know,' said Harry after a moment, 'if you don't get rid of that habit of quoting, people will start to think you might be intelligent.' 'Or,' said Angelica levelly, 'that I'm hiding a heart behind the cynicism.

The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.

and suffering is another bad habit.

Routine kills creative thought.

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.