Quotes About Habits

The illusion that egoists will be pleased, or flattered, by interest taken in their habits persists throughout life; whereas, in fact, persons like Widmerpool, in complete subjection to the ego, are, by the nature of that infirmity, prevented from supposing that the minds of others could possibly be occupied by any subject far distant from the egoist's own affairs.

Åžimdiye kadar yapt???m çal??malar bana; durum ve davran??lar?m?z? deÄŸiÅŸtirebilirsek, her ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirebileceÄŸimizi öÄŸretti. -S?nr?s?z Güç -Al??kanl?klar hayat?m?z?n bütününü oluÅŸturur ve bunu bilinçsizce yapar?z.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us." —JOHN DRYDEN

Åžimdiye kadar yapt???m çal??malar bana; durum ve davran??lar?m?z? deÄŸiÅŸtirebilirsek, her ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirebileceÄŸimizi öÄŸretti. -S?n?rs?z Güç -Al??kanl?klar hayat?m?z?n bütününü oluÅŸturur ve bunu bilinçsizce yapar?z.

That's right: statistics show that fewer than 10% of people who buy a book ever read past the first chapter.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action - this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from adulthood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather supreme importance.

Or, in one word, the habits are produced from the acts of working like to them: and so what we have to do is to give a certain character to these particular acts, because the habits formed correspond to the differences of these.

One may have spent one's time badly, but one did spend it; one did do something with it, however ill-advised that something may have been. To do something else means a change of habits.

I should like to meet him, I said. If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits. I am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement. I had enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence. How could I meet this friend of yours?

Save for the occasional use of cocaine he had no vices

average Russian reads three times as many books a year as the average United States citizen.

Je vous montrerai que toute votre culture antérieure et toutes les habitudes de votre pensée ont dû faire de vous inévitablement des adversaires de la psychanalyse, et je vous dirai ce que vous devez vaincre en vous-même pour surmonter cette hostilité instinctive.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

What I have never witnessed is a writer's work succeeding notably in a field he doesn't habitually read for pleasure.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time.

Both beliefs take the temporary habits of an age of excess and treat them as necessities, and both of them box our collective imagination into a futile quest to sustain the unsustainable instead of looking at the real alternative to the extravagant use of fossil fuels.