Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

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

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths

The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance, therefore, are your own capabilities. And no one can do it for you. You must cultivate the habit of leadership effectiveness for yourself - and doing so will be the single best investment you will ever make.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

The power of habit is very strong.

The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.

The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

There are no laws of nature; there are habits of nature.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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]

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

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.

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

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