Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

Sow an action, reap a habit.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything.

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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 expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.

The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.

The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.