Habit Forming Quotes
25 quotes by 20 authors
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something…
— Margaret Meagher
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No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because…
— Sam Snead
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To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
— Sam Snead
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Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to…
— Heinz Hopf
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I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
— Marcel Duchamp
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The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming
— Lucian Freud
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In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make…
— Twyla Tharp
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In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which…
— Thomas Merton
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Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to…
— Heinz Hopf
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I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The…
— Warren Buffett
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For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case,…
— Mordecai Richler
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Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.
— Robert Benchley
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Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great…
— Lucian Freud
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Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a…
— Henrietta Rose-Innes
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Losing is like smoking. It's habit formingâ€; “Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put…
— Puggy Pearson
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
— W.C. Fields
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You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give…
— Gregory Maguire
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that…
— N. T. Wright
Who Wrote These Habit Forming Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 25 Habit Forming Quotes as follows: