Habits Quotes · Page 70

“You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit.”

— Albert Camus

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

— Maxwell Maltz

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

— John C. Maxwell

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

— Orson Scott Card

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

— Han Suyin

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

— Jemima Kirke

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

— Don DeLillo

I don't really have a routine. I make it up on the fly, or whatever feels right, I'll do.

— Rich Froning Jr

“Before users create the mental associations that activate their automatic behaviors, they must first invest in the product.”

— Nir Eyal

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get…

— Chadwick Boseman

Influence others with your good behavior and actions, who you think you are; are the message and it speak louder than what…

— Kemmy Nola

Facing the truth means going beyond just admitting we've done something wrong; it means not making excuses for that wrong behavior.

— Joyce Meyer

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

— Sargent Shriver

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

— Seth Godin

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with…

— Richard Burton

“Solve problems, don’t create them. A huge number of very dislikable people have this aggravating habit of either creating problems they can…

— Stanley Bing

Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when…

— Bruce Lee

For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by…

— Robert D. Hare

“Death. I’ve taunted it for years with confidence and courage. It has taken years for me to realize that it wasn’t courage…

— J.C. Wickhart

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or…

— Robert Greene

Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or…

— Josh McDowell

“When negative thoughts about anything – be it a person, an unhealthy habit, a circumstance or a work deadline – surround our…

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

— Thomas Mann

“Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.”

— J Loren Norris

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

— Samuel Beckett

“Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil.”

— Harley King

“when a woman is too nice and will jump through hoops: It invites bad behavior.”

— Sherry Argov

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

— Brian Tracy

“If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Love to a person not his habits, Hate to a person's talk not them, Forget to a person's mistakes, not them.

— Winfredable

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

— Jane Lynch

“In system dynamic simulation, this data set is referred to as the reference behavior pattern (RBP).”

— Rich Jolly

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

— George Santayana

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

— Josh Billings

“Good reporting and good behavior are mutually exclusive.”

— Tom Rachman

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

— Julian Baggini

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

— Woody Guthrie

Some feelings have a habit of persisting. Even though you wouldn't let it show.

— Gotye