Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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 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 in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

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

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

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

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 takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling to let go of. I never dreamed that I would be making black-and-white paintings with so little embellishment. But it's been liberating in many ways to let go of that and yet see what I did want to retain.

I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

I've sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can't figure things out all the time but keeps at it.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.