Habit Quotes - Page 32

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.

As each generation comes up that doesn't have the habits for paper it's just easier and cheaper to get your stuff online. You know, people go to what they're used to. Certainly our generation, you know, we'll always want to have a magazine in our hands. We like that, but millennials didn't see the value in that necessarily.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

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

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the tuning, it's a completely different note. That excites me. That's why I had the ukulele around in the first place, years ago. It was to just break out of habits.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

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.

Take something away, and your habits become clear.

When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.