Habits Quotes · Page 94

How can success have importance without failure...After all, we all have bad habit of comparing.

— Anonymous

Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.

— Angie Sage

“No undesirable behavior has ever been eliminated by passing a law against it.”

— Daniel Quinn

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

— Raymond Radiguet

I worry myself into not doing bad things or risky behaviors. Been keeping me safe for years now.

— Anonymous

“2. The piggyback: Add a new behavior onto an existing habit.”

— Susan David

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

— Charles Darwin

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

— Rupert Sheldrake

“Sadly, plastering a new coat of ideas on the base of same old weary thoughts and habits is only going to worsen…

— Vishal Ostwal

“The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's”

— John Bunyan

Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity…

— Tom Paulin

“It is only when we are in the habit of recognizing our opinions as a partial experience seen through our stereotypes that…

— Walter Lippman

I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding…

— Sam Hunt

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

— Robert Greene

“Less of a love. More of a habit. Remember to separate the two in your mind if you can. Many an unwise…

— Karen Harrington

Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and…

— Sakyong Mipham

Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling…

— Patricia Garfield

“Without a second look, your habits and hygiene reflect a lot about you—your thoughts, values, beliefs, priorities, self-esteem, self-respect, confidence, and every…

— Susan C. Young

It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain…

— Antonin Artaud

“In the school, college or university class routines, there should be no classes for the teachers to conduct at a stretch such…

— Md. Ziaul Haque

“She was Remade she was (Remade scum), he knew it, he saw it, and still he felt incessantly what was inside him,…

— China Miéville

“It was in the Depot Tavern that he received condolences, accepted funerary offers of drink, and, when these recognitions were exhausted, he…

— William Gaddis

“morphic resonance points to new ways forward: If the regularities of nature are evolving habits rather than eternal laws, there is no…

— Rupert Sheldrake

“Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world? Love may be nothing…

— Rick Yancey

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

— Warren Buffett

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.

— Wilbur Mills

There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.

— Gerald Jampolsky

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

— Nicholas Kristof

“Servitude had become a habit and posture of her body, in a way that felt painfully familiar:”

— Mia Alvar

“A person's bad habit is often misunderstood by close people, even those who are more prone to this habit.”

— Srinivas mishra

“Being consistent in your behavior is a great way to build trust.”

— Germany Kent

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

— Joan D. Vinge

“Habit-forming technologies start changing behavior by first cueing users with a call-to-action.”

— Nir Eyal

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldnt.

— Anonymous

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

— Henry Williamson

“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.”

— Per Bak

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.

— El-P

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

— James Howard Kunstler

When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.

— Tony Stewart