Quotes About Habit

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.

Here are a few things to keep in mind when you're getting ready to read: • Select a regular place for reading. • Set aside a regular time, when you will be able to devote your full attention to the baby and the book. Just before or just after a nap is usually good. • Try to read for at least fifteen minutes each day.

Only when poetry is read can it become a hobby, a habit, a daily necessity. Only so can it become 'literature', enjoyment of which is no longer confined to the solemn moments of life or to special festivities, but which may be drawn upon as desired merely to pass the time of day. Poetry thus loses the last remnant of its numinous character and becomes mere 'fiction', mere invention which can arouse aesthetic interest without claiming any element of conviction

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

The more you do it, the more automatic it becomes, and the less effort it takes.

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.

My routine is to ride that snooze button as far as it will take me, take a quick shower, get dressed in the dark and bolt out the door.

I quit steaks for a while, but it's a hard habit to break.

If you know me, you know I mutter quite a bit. Not one of my most redeeming qualities.

I pick my nose quite a bit.

People who know me know that I'm a rabid fan of the Kansas Jayhawks. My quirky habit is that every Kansas game is on my calendar, and, more often than not, I will plan and schedule flights around them so that I can engage and watch. I have already brainwashed my family to be Jayhawks fans.

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

I run every day now. I never ran before.

I tell myself that water is my medicine and that to stay well, I have to drink a gallon of it every day.

I drive every day. I like to gamble.

I make it a point to have my meals after every two hour gap and am very particular about it.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.