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Habit Quotes

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

Kenneth H. Cooper

Stress Habit Control Management Diet

Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.

Change Day Habit Effort Research

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

Habit Gossip Girlfriends Prince

It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.

Change Beginning Habit Mountain New

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

Robert B. Laughlin

Day Beginning Habit Me Reading See

I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

Character Commitment Simple Habit

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

Julianna Baggott

Good Habit Writing Lying Stories

Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together.

Work Love Together Habit Happy You

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Habit Earth Become Names Dust Being

There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.

Time Art Habit Support Antique

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Home Habit Me Enough Bad Down

Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

Habit Dating Someone You Natural

Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.

Change Stress Habit Energy Lose Way

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

Michael Redhill

Habit Looking Walking Down Strange

Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.

Natalie Massenet

Habit Muscle Keep Positivity Like

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Henry Williamson

Water Habit Enough Long Become Been

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

Mother Teacher Time Habit Think

If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.

Character Habit Effort You Want

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

Gilbert Gottfried

Habit Brain Bad Surgeon Things Had

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.

Life Habit Yellow Lost Try Office

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Life Habit People Tools Help Bad

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

Habit People Excuses Come Percent

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food Culture Habit Identity Craving

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

H. P. Lovecraft

Simple Habit King Bible Rich Rhythm

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