Bad shopping habits die hard.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
Morning TV is about habits. What you really need is for viewers to find you, get comfortable with you, make you part of their mornings. If you can make news, deliver things they value, you can be successful.
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
I think not having come from the DJ world was an asset to me at first because I didn’t have some of the habits other DJs had, and I think in a way that set me apart.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
Sometimes if you kick too much, it can work in a negative direction. If you get tired or sore, you might develop some bad habits.
Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.
I like having something I can watch every single night. It suits my habits.
For the average person at home, they should know they don’t need a celebrity trainer. It’s all about your habits outside of the gym.
I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then – and this is the best part – we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we’re free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.
Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
I had this one dear friend in college who was a chain smoker. His smoking habits led him to major health problems. That’s the time I remember telling him to let go. And after a point, he did listen to me and gave up smoking.
At 19, you’re not really thinking about the habits you have. I wasn’t. Maybe your study habits? But not your life habits.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
When most individuals or most companies are talking about trying to create healthy habits, the key is to identify which habit or habits seem most important.
I have had teachers who were brutal. If you look up ‘brutal’ in a dictionary, you will see their names. And I think that it’s under the guise of wanting to change the actor’s habit – wanting to break bad habits and replace them with brand-new ones you can use for the rest of your career.
Bad habits can easily be formed when you’re younger.
Women in figure skating, like in every other industry, are expected to conform to an unrealistic standard of beauty. Unhealthy habits are often encouraged to promote a thin frame, and young girls idealize a skewed definition of ‘fit.’
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive – no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.
Our seas do have fish in them. We have to change our eating habits, the type of fish we tend to go for. Pollack is fine, that type of thing.
I grew up eating fast food all the time. I developed that taste for it. As I got older, I started to teach myself to reverse those habits. I had to tell myself I can’t have it.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
I think that the ‘laws of nature’ are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
In TV, I did scripts that were not well-written, and I learned how to make bad material okay. That’s a hard thing to do; you can learn bad habits, but you can also learn to find something in anything.
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
When I came back from the military and completed a 4-year degree in 2 1/2 years, I developed the extraordinary habits needed to get a lot done in a very short period of time!
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it’s based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling – right or wrong – that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.
A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
We’re all addicted to sort of the habits of our lives. And we get stuck, and sometimes we’ll get stuck because we had traumas that we don’t want to remember.
I feel so fortunate to have great coaching. Coaches that have taught me great habits and taught me great things about basketball and life, but I’ve always played for coaches who have held me accountable and that’s made me a better player and person.
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
Radio people can’t entirely shake off radio habits when they start doing podcasts. They sometimes bring with them things we don’t need, like producers and explanatory voiceovers.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
It will be useful for you to know your biological age and maybe to change your lifestyle habits if you find you have short telomeres.
I’m taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids.
Language is political. That’s why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that’s why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.
People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can help you orchestrate, and orchestration helps you create the habits that continuously improve the systems!
Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty.
I am aware of my film habits because I have for so long played guys who are darker or dealing with very complex issues, and they’re dealing with their darker sides.
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
