What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
As a band, we always took a really long time to make records, so unfortunately, we got into that habit of, like, ‘We’ll work on it tomorrow.’
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
Forming a good habit early in life is very important as it goes on to become your nature.
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.
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.
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.
The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.
There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.
There’s something called the ‘Washington Read,’ which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they’re in there.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly handing over power to machines.
I am not in the habit of making ideal claims.
Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I’m not sure why I did it, but it’s a pretty depressing state.
I have always been extremely health conscious and I have never smoked and don’t encourage the habit of smoking.
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.
I’m a creature of habit. I don’t really like change.
As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I’ve loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It’s both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it’s not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.
There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.
Pugs are creatures of habit.
You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
Never permit failure to become a habit.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don’t come from a family that lies.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
I didn’t want to be a hero and get into the mould but the film industry doesn’t work like that. It has a habit of branding you in a specific image to market you easily.
I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!
We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
I am not in the habit of putting a ring on my own finger.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Most athletes, we’re the good ol’ boys, part of the good-ol’-boy fraternity, and we take care of our brothers, and we cover up the bad habit and the bad play.
Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person’s right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I’m only 5’7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn’t active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.
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.
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
Changing a habit or routine doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time and may take easing into the change to make it work for you. Waking up earlier is no exception.
Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It’s a club with a culture to try to do everything to help the team.
I went to – I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.
Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.
I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.
I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there’s that.
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.
I have a shoe habit. If I’m in New York, it’s a problem because I’m walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it’s not as bad.
If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
It’s too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist’s voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history.
I have a habit of needing cake or chocolate when I get an energy dip around 4 P.M. I wish I could stop.
