Quotes About Habit

I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.

Nothing worked consistently anymore, not the illusion or the self-made glue that had held them together, not even the armature of habit. For years, when she

with no tribute whatsoever to the human habit of disguising the stare.

When she went out to the kitchen, I knew she would be getting her Triscuits. That was what she had for her snack at the end of every workday: six Triscuits exactly, because six was the serving size listed on the box. She showed a slavish devotion to the concept of a recommended serving size....

Why Americans always begin inch by inch with what they say?

flossing his teeth. He couldn't go to bed without flossing his teeth. For some reason, Sarah had found this irritating. If Macon were condemned to death, she'd said once, and they told him he'd be executed by firing squad at dawn, he would no doubt still insist on flossing the night before. Macon, after thinking it over, had agreed.

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

The challenge, it turns out, isn't in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of

It's important that they developed the habit of identity. When they looked in the mirror, they saw themselves as musicians, as artists, as people who had committed to a journey.

Settling is no fun. It's a malignant habit, a slippery slope that takes you to mediocrity.

Settling is no fun. It's a malignant habit, a slippery slope that takes you to mediocrity. Managers settle all the time. They don't really have a choice because there are too many competing priorities.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it's easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart.

People on Earth engaged in ritual repetition; most of them thought as little as possible; most of them occupied themselves with things and events that were not very important. Amusement

And as I recall, you told me to shut up. (Acheron) I'm an asshole. I admit it. I've been going to weekly Assholes Anonymous meetings, but it takes a long time to undo a few thousand years of habit. And to think you have even more years to undo than me. (Zarek)

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

A part of them has grown very attached to a certain way of life.

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

Are you truly dirty if you don't take a shower every day? No, but you feel that way. It's the same with running. Just like a shower, running is part of my daily life.

Eating three times a day even if you're not hungry.

Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.