I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.
I think my worst habit is struggling with technology, even though I know how this stuff works, I need to bring conscious thought into how I use.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.
Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner’s history.
I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.
I have this habit of not rehearsing a lot; I don’t go on practicing my dialogues, pauses, and actions.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
I’m very much a creature of habit.
It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.
While it’s true a small treat won’t blow your budget, indulging every day could – the same way a slice of cake probably won’t hurt but, if you make it a daily habit, you may have trouble fitting in your pants.
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn’t out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.
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.
Character is long-standing habit.
I’m a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.
I got a bad habit of creating.
If you’ve ever tried to start up the habit of early-morning exercise, you have probably encountered how easy it is to get derailed by too much choice.
The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper – not on my phone – before I go to bed.
I know it’s a terrible habit, but if I get a pimple, I’ll sit in front of the mirror and pick at it for hours.
I personally don’t think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.
I’ll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it’s not a good thing when you’re over more than a third of the plate.
Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn’t like baseball caps so I got a beret.
Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!
Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it’s just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.
Humans are animals of habit – they convince themselves they can’t change. And that premise is wrong.
I do miss talking in the press, I miss meeting journalists at shows and stuff but maybe that’s more out of habit than anything?
There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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.
Those of us involved in TV have a habit of using the word ‘landmark’ a bit too readily. I have been involved in a couple of television projects that, while we were making them, felt quite landmark-ish, but that in retrospect were just good TV.
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
Professors simply can’t discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Here’s a habit I never thought I’d develop: I gravitate to anything online that’s marked ‘most popular’ or ‘most e-mailed.’ And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom – a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training – but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
My worst habit is probably that I’m extremely messy. I’m a big scatter-brain – I’m always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.
My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.
My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.
I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.
What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I’m lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
The cold truth is that the best products don’t always win. Many times it’s – the products that have the ability to keep users coming back and using them without conscious thought and using them out of habit are the ones that keep us coming back.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun’s habit, a surgeon’s scrubs, a cop’s uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
I’m creature of habit.
I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
