Habit Quotations | Page 2

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so - for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

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

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

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

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

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

I've been in the habit of helping people.

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

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken

Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

No one is guaranteed their next moment, or their next breath; yet, humanity has a habit of thinking of its existence on the earth as eternal. Those who are rooted and grounded in Christ know that life is just a vapor.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

We both were in a drug habit and when I walked away from it, he kept on using.

We fall into that habit sometimes of taking the shot after one pass. We have so many good 3-pointer shooters sometimes they think they have to take the shot right away. We like to play an up-tempo style and sometimes that?s going to happen. You have to take the bad with the good.

We're for people just controlling their dogs especially if they're in the habit of attacking people or other dogs.

Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

WORDS can confer strength; they can drain it off; Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one's words sweet, soft, and pleasant.

Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

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

Divorce transforms habit into drama.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.

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.

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

Paint something every day.

Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.

No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

Humans are animals of habit.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

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

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

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

To make headway, improve your head.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

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

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

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

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.

When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that's not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.

Simple, consistent good habits lead to a life full of bountiful blessings.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life.

This winning habit will stand the party in good stead as we build towards winning the 20 first-past-the-post seats we need to win the Scottish election in 2007

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

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

Sean tends to keep his hands down, but when he keeps them up he?s nasty. It?s a little habit we?re trying to get him out of. Today he played very well.

Software companies have a nasty habit of doing so much of their business in the last moments of the quarter that they typically only confess once the quarter has come to a close.

So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that sort of typical work environment. The benefit might be that if you embrace that and say I need to be self-employed or I need to be doing more project-oriented work. Identify the benefits -- I'd be more productive. I'd be happier. The people around me would be happier because my mood would be better. When you identify the benefits of accepting the behavior or habit, you actually give leverage to it and give yourself a better chance of sticking with it.