I have developed a nasty habit of losing to the guy who wins the tournament, and that alone makes you think what you could have achieved.
I’m not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
My wife had a bad habit of biting her nails, but I cured her. I hid her teeth.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Try to find a good gym, have a schedule or take a class every day, and make it a habit.
In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
I don’t like being in the limelight. It is not something extraordinary. It is just my habit.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Both my best and my worst habit is that I’m very impulsive.
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
I think that, in my humble opinion, that the world is divided, and the media has a very good, a very predictable habit of emphasizing whatever will keep people clicking.
The one thing you don’t want to do is get to a point where losing becomes a habit.
Never been in the habit to look back.
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
Everybody has some kind of addiction. It’s about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.
I always say, ‘I love producing, but directing is my passion,’ and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.
I think it’s a bad habit for an actor to change scripts because that’s not your job. You’re not a writer, necessarily – although there are some actors that are good at it.
I’ve never been to a festival. I’m a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa’s squishy. Maybe too squishy – it’s hard to get up sometimes.
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.
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.
The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.
The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.
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.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
As a kid, I didn’t have a shower at home, and I was used to taking bucket baths, so I went back to that old habit.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone’s morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
As a rugby player I got into the habit of tackling without thinking. But in MMA you’ve got to land the right way. You can’t flop. You’ve got to bounce back to your feet. You’ve got to use your sprawl.
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.
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
I have to get out of the habit of jumping into relationships with new friends before I really get to know them.
I’ve retired so many times now it’s getting to be a habit.
I’ve developed a habit of people-watching. In Paris, I love watching all kinds of people walking by from my apartment terrace, and while I’m traveling the world, I enjoy observing all the people in airports.
It’s a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.
Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don’t get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they’re verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they’re happening.
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don’t get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
I think winning can become a bit of a habit.
I am disciplined and tend to stick to my workout regime and eating habit and adhere to them strictly.
As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.
I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I’m getting better about it as I’m getting older.
I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.
I would always be going from L.A. to Miami to New York, to Russia, St-Tropez. Costs about $50,000 for a domestic flight, $250,000 for overseas. Yeah, that’s an expensive habit.
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children’s right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.
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.
When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.
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.
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.
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.
France has a specificity – the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let’s say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.
