Habit Quotes - Page 12

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

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.

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.

Home is where my habits have a habitat

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

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.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.