Habit Quotes · Page 53

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

— Shawn Achor

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

— Edsger Dijkstra

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

— Libba Bray

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

— Catherine McCormack

“H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.”

— Lucas Remmerswaal

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

— Michael Shermer

“Habit is an energy saver for us. It allows us to free our mind for other types of activities.”

— Barbara Oakley

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old…

— Victor Hugo

When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to…

— Kaitlyn

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants.…

— Hannah More

When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave…

— Gretchen Rubin

Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned,…

— Luigi Cornaro

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait…

— Sigrid Nunez

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good…

— Mary Gordon

It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people,…

— Wilbur Olin Atwater

If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them…

— Esther Hicks

The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution…

— Dallas Willard

I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where…

— Bertrand Russell

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20…

— Michelle Obama

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued…

— John Dewey

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

"The earth is so beautiful. We are beautiful also. We can allow ourselves to walk mindfully, touching the earth, our wonderful mother,…

— Anonymous

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit…

— Terry Pratchett

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

— Ed Foreman

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

— George Washington

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

— Seth Godin

Not listening to what my wife tells me is my worst habit. I'm always losing my concentration.

— Hugh Dennis

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

— Anonymous

Despite what many say or think, the PS2 is here to stay. I know that Microsoft dropped the Xbox like a bad…

— Cory Barlog

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

— John Steinbeck

When I have some time, I enjoy watching movies, also trying to cultivate habit of reading.

— Gautam Rode

It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement

— David Wolfe

“He has a habit of runnng faster than he should and using his superior hearing when he should not.”

— J.M. Dain

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

— Mary Russell Mitford

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

— Ronald Reagan

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

— Ursula K. Le Guin