Habits Quotes · Page 37

Rewarding the bad behavior of autocrats only emboldens them.

— Michael Waltz

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

— Mandy Ingber

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

— Cynthia Voigt

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

— Lance Burton

Metamorphosis do not happens overnight, but the changes of human behavior in a moment.

— Mak_786

“I’m Learning From My Mistakes” It’s Became Generic Statement, Because The Habits Is Staying The Same…”

— eBee

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

— David D. Burns

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

— Wilt Chamberlain

You don't need to wait to hear the 'apology' to forgive. It may never come. Let forgiveness be a 'gift' that is…

— Ash Sweeney

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“It’s the system that surrounds us, rather than any intrinsic quality, that accounts for the vast majority of our behavior.”

— Jeff Sutherland

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

— Richard K. Morgan

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept…

— Ariel Gore

There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's…

— Demetri Martin

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

— Charles Horton Cooley

“Every parent loathes the bedtime routine. Actually, there are probably some parents who love the bedtime routine, but I've never met any…

— Amber Dusick

There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in…

— David Barton

“Syria, there are clear red lines when it comes to politics and religion, but people’s personal habits are not considered part of…

— John R. Bradley

But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his…

— Albert Einstein

Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless…

— Hannah Arendt

The major problem with most attempts to predict a specific outcome, such as interviews, is decontextualization: the attempt takes place in a…

— Maria Konnikova

A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove.…

— Richard Dawkins

“I am here to posit that it's exactly in these moments of struggle and stress that we need books the most. There's…

— Erin Blakemore

The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release…

— Sonia Choquette

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

— Roy Moore

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.

— John W. Peterson

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

— Jane Austen

Going to the gym isn't the toughest part...it's the eating habits that mess everything up. BE DISCIPLINED.

— Anonymous

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

— Rufus Wainwright

When you notice that your habit is not helping you, you should do all you can to break it at all cost.

— Anonymous

“Arguing for the sake of arguing is not a bad habit, it is a chronic disease”.”

— Marcus Khaleeq

“Insignificant bad habits have a significant impact over time.”

— Ben Hunt-Davis

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

— Paulo Freire

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

— David Brin

“One of the best ways to change human behavior is to gather people with similar problems together.”

— Anonymous

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

— Edward Young

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

— B. F. Skinner

Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

— Natalie Massenet

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.

— Ted Malloch