Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.

The two critical questions to ask are: "Who is my customer?" and "What value am I adding?" Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Understanding and admitting that you have an issue is the first way to change. When you quit a toxic habit, you leave room for something beautiful to take its place.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

War is not human nature. It is a habit.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

We are mere bundles of habits.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even when we gain insight into these things, we rarely behave differently in the future. Despite our overt resolve, we are still creatures of habit.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.