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.
Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I’m fully awake.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it’s a habit; every Estonian looks at it as part of our national identity. We understand that this allows us to provide better services to our people than our money would allow.
Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Whenever we haven’t got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
I have a habit of getting very obsessive about one thing, but it usually lasts no more than three days.
How did a prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative become the hope of liberal radio? It all started with this annoying habit I have of speaking my mind.
I am a good boy. Sweet. I love to chill. I have a select set of friends, am big on house music, love Goa. I don’t read much. Though that is one habit I am trying to inculcate.
I have got into the habit of gyming regularly.
I was playing Sultan Razia and had a habit of twitching my wrist when I took a movement.
We’re drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it. Once you start drawing, writing, and gluing stuff in every day, it can quickly become a habit – addictive, even. Your attitude should be: ‘I can do this, but I mustn’t make it too intimidating.’
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
In high school, I had a gold 1992 Ford Explorer. It was a gift. I used to have a terrible habit of locking the keys in the car when I used leave the car running to help it start on a cold morning. I think the local locksmith became used to me calling him.
Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
I’m not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I’m in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
I’ve been deeply influenced by Aristotle’s idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. ‘The control of the appetites by right reason,’ is how he defined it.
Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand – by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person – it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I’m not putting it down.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
What’s important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.
You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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.
I’ve joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Hunger also changes the world – when eating can’t be a habit, then neither can seeing.
Doing one thing by yourself, for yourself, that creates joy is such an important habit.
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.
‘The Power of Habit’ is the exact kind of non-fiction I love. It’s smart and interesting, and it changes your perception how you do what you do or why you are who you are.
Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.
I find that reading is a super important habit. It’s one of the best ways to get centered, to find a new tool to play with, or to experiment with a new idea.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.
The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow’s flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow’s flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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.
My worst habit is opening the fridge and thinking: ‘I’d like to eat something.’
We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball’s going to bounce to.
I’ve got my dad’s height and smoking habit. But I think I’ve got my mum’s looks and sensibilities.
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
I can’t stop biting my nails. It’s a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don’t like geometry, but for me it’s fun.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I’m a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I’d be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it’s become a habit.
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that’s common to every single one of them. Right?… So it’s reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.
Despite what many say or think, the PS2 is here to stay. I know that Microsoft dropped the Xbox like a bad habit but PS2 still has more staying power.
I had a habit of when I dressed before a game to place my eyeglasses on a locker shelf for safety.
It’s not my habit to kiss and tell. I’ve never done it.
Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
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.
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.
