Quotes About Habits

You need no new skills to increase your productivity—just a new set of behaviors about when and where to apply them.

I can be fat or I can smoke. I can't be both." They

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

Blake: 'Think in the morning; act in the noon; eat in the evening; sleep in the night.

Heroism was disruptive, in Carlyle's view. Its value lay precisely in its unsettling effect on habits and routine. It divided men and women more often than it brought them together.

Putnam argued that the concept of psychological bravery has not been properly recognized in ethics and asserted that the psychological bravery involved in facing fears generated by our own habits is essential to well-being.

Civilizar minha vida é expulsar-me de mim. O que me mata é o cotidiano. Eu queria só exceções. Estou perdida: eu não tenho hábitos.

Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

If you give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

To play the violin it is necessary to possess certain habits, skills, knowledge, and talents, to be in the mood to play, and (as the old joke goes) to have a violin. But violin playing is neither the habits, skills, knowledge and so on, nor the mood, nor . . . the violin.

Traditions have got a lot to answer for. They lose their meaning and we cling on to something that does more harm than good.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive habits, inclinations, and attributes.

In the same way, any ethical system which aspires to be true ethics and to bear a normative and teleological character, not falling into merely a description of habits and customs, is forced to seek the support of metaphysics.

Travel ends and routine begins and old habits which you thought you had left behind in one country catch up with you in the next, and old problems resurface, but if you are lucky you carry as part of your baggage the means of solving those problems and accommodating those habits, and you take with you an open mind and discretion, and common sense; if you have those with you, you can manage anywhere.

Life is not like detective stories. There is a wider scope for interpretation. The answers to all the questions that beset you are not in facts, which are the greatest illusion of all, but in your own heart, in your own habits, in your limitations, in your fear.

People confuse early rising with moral worth;

Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.

debes haber terminado de cenar como muy tarde a las nueve de la noche, idealmente a las seis o a las siete de la tarde.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.