Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

I'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,--habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.