Quotes About Habit

The emphasis is always on what you should do, never on what you should stop doing.

When you're on autopilot, you are not really thinking about this situation, this moment, this challenge, or the specific response it requires. You're just reacting in a way that has become comfortable for you over time. Your brain saves a lot of energy this way. You expand fewer mental calories. But you're not really present for what you are doing. Which is why you are not considering whether your behavior is serving you now.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

So it is with most of us: that which we observe to be taken as a matter of course by those around us, we take as a matter of course ourselves.

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease

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

But Lord! to see how much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing what o'clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think with myself, how could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while I lived.

The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

It is only when a Christian recognizes that drinking is not only a harmful habit, but also a transgression of a God-given principle to ensure our health and holiness, that he or she will feel compelled to abstain from intoxicating substances.

You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.

Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.

He's a guy who gets up at 6 a.m. regardless of what time it is -

I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

Every time you respond in a certain fashion, it gets easier and easier to respond.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.