Habits Quotes · Page 119

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

— Julian Baggini

You can laugh at my behavior that will never bother me, say the devil is my savior, but I don't pay no…

— Roger Hodgson

“Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

“A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.”

— Marcia Carrington

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

— Criss Jami

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

— Graham Greene

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

— Dashiell Hammett

“The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.”

— Elizabeth Jenkins

“Maybe I'll even become a nun and swear off boys forever." Scarlet turned to study me. "No. Your face wouldn't be good…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes…

— Ari Graynor

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not…

— Kate Gosselin

Time Decides Who you will meet in life, your heart decides who u want in your life, and your behavior decides who…

— Frenchqueen

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after,…

— Joyce Meyer

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

— Ralph Fiennes

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

— Robert Greene

If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right…

— David Jeremiah

“I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And…

— Gretchen Rubin

“Mirroring is simply the process of discreetly matching and mirroring the subtle behaviors and qualities of the person with whom you are…

— Susan C. Young

If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or…

— Rachel Martin

“Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of…

— Dennis Prager

Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain…

— Daniel Dennett

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our…

— Bernard de Mandeville

What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Ringo had this habit of lighting up two cigarettes, one for Maureen at the same time that he lit his own. I…

— Cynthia Lennon

Everything about you is cute, your personality is cute, Your laugh. Your smile. Your habits.Your weirdness :)

— Rob Lloyd

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

— Brian Cox

“The child who lives with autism may look “normal,” but his behavior can be perplexing and downright unruly.”

— Ellen Notbohm

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

— Dean Koontz

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

— Joyce Meyer

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

— Natalie Merchant

The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.

— Albert L. Gray

Remember, there is no right way to train, so you need to experiment until you find the right routine for you.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

“Since the heart and behavior are so closely linked, whatever modifies behavior inevitably trains the heart.”

— Tedd Tripp

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

— Cynthia Voigt

“The Captain's habit of letting off a revolver at real or imaginary cats was a sore trial to his neighbours.”

— Agatha Christie

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

— Thomas G. Stemberg

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

— Stephen Lewis

I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.

— Al Jarreau

“Shall I carry you in the house, or drop the knight with a raging hard on routine for tonight, do you think?”

— Virginia Nelson