Quotes About Habits

Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day.

He also spends a lot of my money on vitamin pills and biltong.

Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot; they will fight for their existence with subtlety and persuasiveness.

The correction of the "I mean," the "As a matter of fact" habit, takes cooperation. If you realize that you have picked up a verbal mannerism, call on the friend to whom you talk most fluently and emotionally. It is fairly easy to control such a mannerism in the presence of someone we hardly know, but in the heat of discourse the offending phrase will crop up in every other sentence.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

The simple things done consistently will produce the greatest results in your life.

Kubey and Csikszentmihalyi report that 2 out of 5 adults and 7 out of 10 children say that they watch too much TV. Also, viewers often feel that they can't stop watching TV. Furthermore, while people report increased good moods after activities such as sports and hobbies, they report being in the same mood or in a worse mood after watching TV

Research also shows that children who habitually view highly attention-grabbing media are more likely to have later attention and impulse-control problems, both of which are related to aggression and school performance

Aggressive habits seem to be learned early in life, and once established, are resistant to change and predictive of serious adult antisocial behavior.

Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.

Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other. The postmodernists are very good at pointing out the pretensions of the modernists. And the modernists are very good at pointing out the incoherence of the postmodernists.

We rarely improve our habits and traits while floating on the placid pool of ease and comfort.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .

Like everything else I teach in my coaching, staying in shape for me is about the little actions and changes in lifestyle that have a huge effect over time.

Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.

Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive.

I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.