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Habit Quotes

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Habit Angry Evil Present You Only

Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it's like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.

Water Habit Yourself Stand Doing Go

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Improvement Habit Start Someone You

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Business Time Habit Lie Me World

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

Live Habit Mind Free Key Choose

Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.

Habit Shopping Bad Everything Mine

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

Daily Teacher Time Money Habit Me

I've gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pumping and find my focus. I worked my way up from eight to 30. That was a real accomplishment.

Christie Brinkley

Focus Habit Accomplishment Find Way

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Work Habit Writing Feel I Feel Like

When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.

Habit Quiet Nervous Shy Him Like

I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.

Brant Daugherty

Good Habit Think You Bad I Can

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

Good Habit Influence Energy Easy

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Habit Book Reading Finish Without

There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.

Day Woman Habit College Someone Try

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Excellence Habit Brave Doing Result

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

Habit Book Reading Bad More Than

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

Anne Graham Lotz

God Habit I Am Suffering Read Word

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Daily Habit Death Thinking Body Us

The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.

Alice Morse Earle

Women Habit Learn America Unknown

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Experience Habit Road Think Walking

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

William Kingdon Clifford

Great Habit Society Believe Lose

My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

Habit Me Painting Places Mean Leave

Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.

Family Habit Weekend Farmer You

I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.

Habit I Am People Door Face Doors

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