Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

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

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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

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

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

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 power of habit is very strong.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

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 habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

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

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