Categories Quote by David Mamet

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

— Samuel Beckett

“even though we developed most of our habits unconsciously (by modeling our parents, responding to environmental or cultural associations, or creating coping mechanisms), we…

— Darren Hardy

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

— Jewel

“Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other settings.”

— James Dale Davidson

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

— Gretchen Rubin

“we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.”

— Jacob Bronowski

Habit is stronger than nature.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

“Cultural habits are by and large irrational, emerge irrationally, and are practiced irrationally. They are independent of the intellect, and trying to fit them…

— G. Willow Wilson

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit…

— Thorstein Veblen

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

— Carl Sagan

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

— Maria Edgeworth

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

— Blaise Pascal