Quotes About Habits

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

Paul does of course want the young Christians to develop to the point where, as mature followers of Jesus Christ, they will gradually find that the Christian habits of heart and life "come naturally." But to get to that point they must learn

Antiabortion activists, like eugenicists, think that the state has the right to intervene in the breeding habits of poor single women.

That a small fraction of colonists survived the first twenty years of settlement came as no surprise back home—nor did London's elite much care. The investment was not in people, whose already unrefined habits declined over time, whose rudeness magnified in relation to their brutal encounters with Indians.

therapists seem to be seeing more and more people at all socioeconomic levels who are deeply in debt—will be glad to take advantage of a therapist's willingness to underwrite their self-defeating habits by reducing the fee or "carrying" them for a while. Not only is it not in the therapist's interest to promote this accommodation, it is not in the client's interest, either.

Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.

Strange surroundings make youngsters cling to habits that represent earlier securities.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.

Shigure: G'morning. Tohru: Good morning! Yuki: Um, Shigure, it's night . Why don't you get a normal sleep pattern? Shigure: I became an author so I wouldn't have to.

GOING VEGAN IS EASY. IT'S EASIER THAN GOING LOW-CARB or gluten-free. And it's much easier than quitting smoking or breaking other habits. Because you can eat as much as you want.

Because people develop ADT in an effort to cope with the stresses in their lives, and because the symptoms actually help them in the short term, the symptoms are "sticky" and may solidify into firm habits, even when life slows and becomes less stressful.

Introduce an alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla resistance. Here is ideology, pure if not serene.

almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge.

The number of hours the average American watches TV has remained steady, at about four and a half hours a day, every day (by age sixty-five, a person will have spent twelve uninterrupted years in front of the TV).

Los pensamientos de valor, autoconfianza y decisión se cristalizan en hábitos de seguridad, que se solidifican en circunstancias de éxito, abundancia y libertad.

Successful people have successful habits. Mediocre people have mediocre habits. And it all starts with a choice.

Because you absorb the habits of those you spend time with, associate only with time-conscious people. Stay away from negative people.

And when we hand down our habits of thought to our children, through the examples we set, the schooling we provide, and the media we use, we hand down as well the modifications in the structure of our brains.

The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything on you. Only it turns out it doesn't feel like that at all. We don't feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to."1

The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything upon you. Only it turns out it doesn't feel like that at all. We don't feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to

We get so set in our ways, you know? I mean, when you meet someone in your teens, like you two did, well, you're still growing, aren't you? You automatically adjust so that you fit together. But when you're my age, all the likes and dislikes are set in stone. That's the trouble.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.'1

In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.