Habitual Quotes

179 Habitual quotes by 131 unique authors

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new… — Alfred North Whitehead
One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When… — Thomas Lickona
Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression,… — Sue Thoele
It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours. — George Santayana
Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to… — Chogyam Trungpa
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed… — Thorstein Veblen
Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech.… — Rupert Sheldrake
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get… — Rupert Sheldrake
Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind. — Wes Nisker
Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort. — Sonja Lyubomirsky
Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent… — Tony Robbins
Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc… — Lauren Mackler
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must… — Alfred North Whitehead
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind… — Graham Greene
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — William Hazlitt
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. — William James
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the… — Thomas Jefferson
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice… — Jeffrey Kluger
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds… — Orison Swett Marden
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love,… — George Saunders
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born… — Hunter S. Thompson
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures… — Eckhart Tolle
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own… — Michel Foucault

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