Quotes About Habits

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My toothbrush and deodorant are my only dumbbells. That's about it.

In natural life, as long as he finds food, a lion does not wander over great distances, and certainly Elsa had seen more of the world than she would have done living with a pride. Yet she knew her home, and whenever we returned from safari she would go straight back to her habits and usual routine.

Lifestyle off the field influences your play on the field.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

You can add five years to your lifespan by just making intelligent lifestyle choices.

Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.

Unconscious dieting usually occurs in the form of meticulous eating habits.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Los rasgos de personalidad se caracterizan por tanto por la forma habitual de percibir nuestro entorno y a nosotros mismos, así como las maneras habituales de comportarse y reaccionar.

Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work.

Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for beauty. Once we cut the automatic but learned connection between buying stuff and pleasure, we can actively cultivate new connections - a sense of freedom as we shed draining habits and discover new pleasures in seeing and creating beauty all around us.

Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities.

When we use the word "sin," we usually think of our misdeeds—actions or habits we know are wrong. But those are specific sins, and they are the result of sin, the deeper spiritual disease that infects our souls. Sin is the cause; sins are the effect. Sin is the tree; sins are the fruit. Sin is the disease; sins are the symptoms.

There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

Paradigm is a part of the conditioning of the mind, our conditioning thought patterns

Properly, eccentricity is not so much a component of genius, as it is a consequence of the habits of men of genius. The reputation for genius is usually acquired by severe and protracted intellectual labor. This occasions repeated reactions from an extreme tension to an extreme relaxation of spirits--the transitions expressing themselves in sharp and abrupt impulses.

Habits influence the character pretty much as undercurrents influence a vessel, and whether they speed us on the way of our wishes, or retard our progress, their influence is not the less important because imperceptible.

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.