Quotes About Habit

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

They remember to do it all the time.

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

M'importava assai poco che l'accordo ottenuto fosse esteriore, imposto, probabilmente temporaneo; sapevo che il bene e il male sono una questione d'abitudine, che il temporaneo si prolunga, che le cose esterne penetrano all'interno, e che la maschera, a lungo andare, diventa il volto.

Peu d'hommes aiment longtemps le voyage, ce bris perpétuel de toutes les habitudes, cette secousse sans cesse donnée à tous les préjugés. Mais je travaillais à n'avoir nul préjugé et peu d'habitudes. J'appréciais la profondeur délicieuse des lits, mais aussi le contact et l'odeur de la terre nue, les inégalités de chaque segment de la circonférence du monde.

Few men enjoy prolonged travel; it disrupts all habit and endlessly jolts all prejudice. Any tolerance shown to fanatics is immediately mistaken by them for sympathy with their cause. Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit.

Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And then that thrilling quiet of which she had never felt any need to speak.

His appearance was intimidating not from any single feature but from a lifelong habit of presenting a formidable front to the outside world.

Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

Holy habits are that: the disciplines, the routines by which we stay alive and focused on Him. At first we choose them and carry them out; after a while they are part of who we are. And they carry us.

The only thing New Yorkers ignore more than nature is history. They have a habit of not spending a great deal of time pondering the history of their city. That is because of a sense that it has always been more or less the same, or, as Edmund Wilson, one of the more venerated New Yorker writers of that magazine's heyday, explained his waning enthusiasm for reading history in his old age, "I know more or less the kind of things that happen.

Humans are the only mammals that consume milk past weaning, apparently in defiance of a basic rule of nature.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.