Habits Quotes

• Changing people's habits is very expensive.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • People
  • Changing
  • Expensive

• The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Different
  • Food
  • Just

• Bad shopping habits die hard.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Shopping
  • Habits

• It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • People
  • Change
  • Peoples

• The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of habits and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Air
  • Cowardice
  • Fresh Air

• I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Fasting is a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Way
  • Rhythms
  • Addictions

• In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • History
  • Food
  • Animals

• .... In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Difference
  • Trained

• I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away. Of course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.

  

  Kajol
  • Believe
  • Terrible
  • Obsessed

• Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Study
  • Human Beings
  • Zoo

• Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Conflict
  • Reverence
  • Adjustment

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

  

  Michael Cretu Enigma
  • Rules
  • Created
  • Habits

• Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Purpose
  • Child

• A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Habits

• But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Personality
  • Habits
  • Regrets

• I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me?

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Habits
  • Mate
  • Marride

• The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Difference
  • Habits
  • Arise

• The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Sibling

• Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Business
  • Habits
  • Intoxication

• I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Friend
  • Practice

• Good habits were the easiest ones to break.

  

  Barbara Seranella
  • Break
  • Habits

• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Travel

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