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Quotes About Habit

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
~ Samuel Beckett
Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.
~ Alexander Gustafsson
For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
~ Robert Motherwell
For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.
~ Peter McWilliams
I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.
~ Joe Manganiello
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
~ Twyla Tharp
More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.
~ Mark Twain
I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.
~ Jenna Jameson
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
~ Oscar Wilde
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
~ John Galsworthy
Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.
~ Aristotle
Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.
~ Dan Millman
I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.
~ David Gilmour
Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.
~ Amber Heard
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
~ C. S. Lewis
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
And as to being quick, why, bless you! That is only a matter of habit; if you get into the habit of being quick, it is just as easy as being slow; easier, I should say; in fact, it don't agree with my health to be hulking about over a job twice as long as it need take. Bless you! I couldn't whistle if I crawled over my work as some folks do!
~ Anna Sewell
Well, I don't think she does have pleasure, it is just a bad habit
~ Anna Sewell
Habitual associates are known to exercise a great influence over each other's minds and manners. Those whose actions are forever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.
~ Anne Bronte
Habitual associates are known to exercise a great influence over each other's minds and manners. Those whose actions are for ever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will—slowly—gradually—imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.
~ Anne Bronte
I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.
~ Anne Frank
I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.
~ Anne Frank
I strip the bed as fast as I can so I won't be tempted to get back in. Do you know what Mother calls this sort of thing? The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
~ Anne Frank
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
~ Anne Lamott