Habit Quotes
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I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.
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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.
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Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
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Falling is scary but good practice for life. We must fall. In love. Out of love. Into new experiences. Out of old habits. Deeper and further into ourselves. We must fall, life is falling over forward. The only choice we have is how we let go.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.
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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.
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'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.
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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
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The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
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My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.
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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
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I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.
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If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.
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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.
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
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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.
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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It's me, it's my habit to perform live on stage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.
