Quotes About Habits

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

Before we received Christ, we were slaves to sin. But because of Christ's work on the cross, sin's power over us has been broken. Satan has no right of ownership or authority over us. He is a defeated foe, but he is committed to keeping us from realizing that. He knows he can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past, subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

The father of lies can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past—subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you . You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.

Turn off the computer at least two hours before bedtime. The light of a computer screen right in front of your face late at night is similar enough to sunlight that it tricks your brain, making it difficult to fall asleep and disruptive to the quality of your sleep.

master did not share the austere habits of the Benedictines and did not like to eat in silence. For that matter, he spoke always of things so good and wise that it was as if a monk were reading to us the lives of the saints.

And it was the same with many of his habits; elegance was a sign of caste, and he chose to be one of the "workers"—although he had never worked at anything but making pictures and speeches. He chose to believe that everything the workers did was right and that everything the rich did was wrong, this being in accordance with the doctrine of economic determinism as he understood it.

There are for each of us several parallelisms between our intelligence, our habits, and our character, which develop without a break, and break only in the great disturbances of life.

Munch no sugar, therefore, and you will live!

chilangos tend to throw their used toilet paper into wastebaskets instead of flushing them down the drain to keep from clogging up the pipes, and this shit-smeared paper winds up in the city dumps and eventually it too goes airborne.

On July 6, 1906, Lovecraft acquired a used Remington typewriter. He never, however, took the next logical step: to learn to type by touch. All his life, he typed with his two forefingers, as did many writers of his generation like H. L. Mencken.

We try to make a virtue of vices we are loath to correct.

I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.