The habit I’ve developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
I had a bad habit of falling in love with any girl who was nice to me.
The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change.
Being on the losing end of perfect games sucks. I tried not to make a habit of it during my career, but I couldn’t help myself.
My dad had a wildly embarrassing habit for a while, that luckily only came out when he was traveling abroad. When trying to decide what restaurant to eat in, he would boldly stride in to the kitchen of every possible contender and have a look around.
The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.
I can’t sit around doing nothing. If I’m not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
I’m a man of habit.
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I’ve finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
When you live without training for a long time, you end up losing that habit. It is difficult to resume things, even if you have some time to prepare. It is difficult to acquire that rhythm again. Many injuries end up happening.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
I smoke, I want to get rid of the habit.
When I was growing up, there wasn’t too much technology. There weren’t so many channels that we were glued to on TV. We had to go outside and create our games. Kids had the habit of being active and exercising, just enjoying the fresh air.
I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It’s really just a lack of focus and discipline.
People are incredible creatures of habit.
Peace is not a state – it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It’s possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it’s like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.
Winning is a habit.
You don’t want to make a living or habit out of trying to solve your problems with high-price pitching free agents because over the long run, there’s so much risk involved that you really can hamstring your organization.
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
I’ve directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn’t make a habit of it because it’s too consuming.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
I try to always take off makeup. But I’m also human, and sometimes I get lazy. However, I do try to encourage people to make it a habit.
We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
If I’m not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.
A habit does not a monk make.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
There’s something very addictive about people pleasing. It’s a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
I’ll do calf raises when I brush my teeth, I always take the stairs, and do squats on commercial breaks if I’m watching TV. It’s so easy and it has become my little habit.
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
I have this horrible habit of just pressing online bookmarks that are at the top of my browser like ad infinitum.
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
It’s an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That’s just rubbish, basically.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it – in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.
I don’t analyze what I’m doing. I’ve read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I’ve noticed something that I wasn’t aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I’m just very, very smart.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
