Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of the reasons for that is my living this life, which is otherwise so free of obligations. It's not at all unusual for anybody who's independently employed to crave a way of living whereby they create the structures without which their lives would otherwise start slopping around all over the place.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.

I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.

I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.

If you have a habit of declaring milestones or changing them based on the crisis of the day, don't expect the team to remain motivated. Similarly, if the team isn't aware of the milestone and the value behind it, they are unlikely to deliver.

If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.

If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

If YOU want to BUILD and MAINTAIN a POSITIVE ATTITUDE, get into the habit of LIVING IN THE PRESENT and DOING IT NOW.

I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.

If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.

I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.

I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.

I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.