Quotes About Habits

Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.

To fail, you merely have to cultivate a few bad habits. You just have to bide your time. And once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated, and much of the less that they have become is now real. Things fall apart, of their own accord, but the sins of men speed their degeneration. And then comes the flood.

Success: that's the mystery. Virtue: that's what's inexplicable. To fail, you merely have to cultivate a few bad habits. You just have to bide your time. And once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished.

Life is what repeats, and it is worth getting what repeats right.

Maybe you're even just a collection of bad habits.

Success: that's the mystery. Virtue: that's what's inexplicable. To fail, you merely have to cultivate a few bad habits. You just have to bide your time.

It comes back to his math-trained habits of thought. A mathematician is always asking, "What assumptions are you making?

No hay calidad sin entrenamiento. Un escritor solo puede innovar si tiene hábitos lingüísticos poderosos y fértiles. Inventemos desde lo que sabemos. José Antonio Marina

La continuidad de la vida social sería posible sin esa compacta masa de hombres puramente imitativos, capaces de conservar los hábitos rutinarios que la sociedad les transfunde mediante la educación?

He had lost his meticulous sense of the passing of time ever since he had given up several old habits. For after all, the hours and the days were meant precisely to maintain those habits, and now the hours and the days resembled empty vessels that could no longer be filled and need not be bothered with anymore.

Old habits stay longer than old scents, eh? - Yellowfang

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.

It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them.

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

I don't have any weird night rituals. I definitely am a ritualistic person... I like to go downstairs and remind my roommate-drummer not to practice early the next morning, so I can sleep in.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.'

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

Marriage civilizes males by making them responsible for their children and by imposing on boys the need to develop the bourgeois habits of self-discipline and work that make them attractive mates.

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.