Habit Quotes

Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

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

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

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

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives.

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Divorce transforms habit into drama.

Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot

Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

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

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

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.

Anything that starts as a practice often turns into the habit and so can be the case with a person's nature of forgiving himself on his mistakes a few number of times.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Humans are animals of habit.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

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

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