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Habit Quotes

As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional - your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.

Communication Leader Habit Value You

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

Life Habit Fall Bad Flaws Meet

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

Education Love Time Habit Value

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

Chauncey Wright

Life Nature Habit Stone Never Move

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

Balthazar Getty

Habit Doing Know Two Been Like

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

History Habit Mistake Assumptions

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

Work Habit Smart People Think Doing

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Habit Action Rise Belief Different

People who know me know that I'm a rabid fan of the Kansas Jayhawks. My quirky habit is that every Kansas game is on my calendar, and, more often than not, I will plan and schedule flights around them so that I can engage and watch. I have already brainwashed my family to be Jayhawks fans.

Brad Garlinghouse

Family Habit People Me Game Plan

You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.

Habit Tomorrow Brand Easy You New

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Motivational Quality Habit Act

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

Habit Sleep Worst While Whistling

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Anthony Burgess

Habit Mind Afternoon Unconscious

Bring your kids along next time you go to the grocery store and ask them to help find the price per unit for the general grocery items. By comparing brands and looking for the best prices, kids will get in the habit of looking for deals and understand the value of the dollar.

Alexa Von Tobel

Time Best Habit Value Looking Help

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Hope Habit Television Results Spread

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

Habit President Question Disappear

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Life Soul Habit Blame Thinking Why

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Learning Habit Learn You Quit Once

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Publilius Syrus

Habit Powerful Empire Indeed

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good Beautiful Great Habit Poetry

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Love Forgiveness Habit Love Is Look

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.

Beginning Habit Long Said Europe

If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

Family Habit Yourself American Help

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature Habit Mind Virtue Reason

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