Environment Quote by G. Stanley Hall

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

— Samuel Beckett

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

— Bertrand Russell

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

— Jewel

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit…

— Albert Einstein

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible…

— C. Wright Mills

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Habit is stronger than nature.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and…

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing…

— William James

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

— John Maynard Keynes

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

— George Eliot