Habit Quotes - Page 17

Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

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

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

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

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

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.

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

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

Winners develop the habit of doing the thing losers don't like to do.

Habit is ten times nature.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.