Habit Quotes

• Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Identity
  • Discipline
  • Importance

• A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hate
  • Happiness
  • Separate

• When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Pretty
  • Choice
  • Self-Criticism

• Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Reading
  • Studious

• Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Live
  • Bad

• It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Life
  • Rubbish
  • Unhealthy

• Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Giving

• The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • World
  • Habit
  • Celluloid

• Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

  

  Catherine Helen Spence
  • Men
  • Way
  • Drinking

• Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Impossible
  • Discouraged
  • Insignificant

• I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Habit

• Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Study
  • Kill
  • Newspapers

• It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.

  

  Kris Humphries
  • Game
  • Practice
  • Breakfast

• It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Long
  • War
  • Community

• The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don’t think about it.

  

  John Wooden
  • Learning
  • Model
  • Criticism

• Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Habit

• London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

  

  William Sansom
  • Habit
  • Lose
  • London

• 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.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Habit
  • Sacrifice

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

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Mother
  • Habit

• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

  

  Simon Newcomb
  • Habit
  • Prosperity
  • Looking Back

• 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.

  

  George Lois
  • People
  • Believe
  • Habit

• Technically, I could have said “journalist” or “writer.” However, admitting to these professions is like uttering a special secret password to Travel Hell. No one wants journalists or writers in their country because they have a habit of writing things, and sometimes these things are even true.

  

  Adam Fletcher
  • Habit
  • Writer
  • Journalist

• It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Habit
  • Swim
  • Obliged

• Living by the clock was an old habit that died hard. Not much that we did required punctuality, but people still wanted to know what time it was.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • People
  • Time
  • Habit

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