A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us.
Habit Quotes (872 Quotes)
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Ninety-eight percent of his waking hours was dedicated to crime, two percent to pleasure. He was very disciplined. Had no bad habits. He didn't drink. He didn't gamble. Didn't do drugs.
Present life is just another halt of our long journey.The best we do in this life, the best we gain in the next lives we have to pass.Because, doing the best things would be a habit during the lives we are passing.
There are six things that 'keep us going.' First, the instinct to live, which we apparently have no part in making or deciding about. Second, group consciousness and the desire that we have to win the approbation of our fellows within the group. Third, the various interests that we may find in life, such as religion or art or some such other branch of esthetics. Fourth, in our climate the habit of work. Fifth, the sheer joy of physical life that we find in hours of well-earned recreation after hard work games, fishing, tramping the hills, a good book before an open fire. Sixth, and most important, the general feeling that we have that there is some abstract goodness or rightness in the world with which we may cooperate in making the world a fine place for a splendid race of men, women and children to live in.
They're a creature of habit and routine they like things the same everyday . I gradually have to adjust their schedule for that one hour difference .
Partners or husbands can also play a role in changing our eating habits. Dating someone from another culture is often the start of a whole new relationship...with food. Partners may also influence women to make healthier food choices.
One thing we do have is confidence. Winning, I believe, is a habit. It's a belief and I believe it's definitely part of our personality as a team. I think they believe in themselves, they have confidence and they believe they should win every game.
We're trying to create a habit of movement.
I'm not in the habit of patting the president on the back.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived
Not an audience but a habit.
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
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.
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
We suggest that a person run their credit report at least six months before making a major purchases, such as a house or car. That's because it gives them time to get any errors corrected or to start correcting any bad credit habits.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
That's probably why we're winning the way we are. When you have goaltending like we have, you can afford to be stingy defensively and not take too many chances offensively. When you get down two or three, then you have to open things up, and that leaves you vulnerable for more bad habits. He gives us a chance to win every night, and that's a real good cushion to have.
Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it . . .
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want ithow much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong.
The template for success in the NBA changed from the Portland model of 1999-2000, when I got to the league, to the Detroit, San Antonio, Miami model. Although we have succeeded on the court to the point of five straight 50-plus win seasons, we certainly didn't do it 'the best way.' We did it the most expensive way. It cost us flexibility and created lots of bad habits. That was my mistake, and it ended up costing us Mike (Finley).
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
You have to get used to winning. Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
If cell phones are the new outlet for news, we're there. If it's computer screens, we're there, ... I know there are changing habits, but they'll come around to us.
Develop the inner vision and the habit of listening to the inner Voice and you are assured of unshakable Peace and infinite Joy.
For what is it to be blind, but to find safety in the darkness and to become the spouse of habit whose name is ignorance
He already has the skills. You just have to show them the right direction to go, work habits. He has to work hard, which he already does.
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.
An undecided consumer simply means that he may soon begin to pull in his spending habits. Two-thirds of the economy is being supported by the consumer.
I've worn a lot of uniforms this year. You don't want to make a habit of that.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
I never keep them when I make them, so I make a habit of not making them. Once you make them, they're so hard to keep. . . . I used to smoke and used to say, 'OK, that's it,' but 10 minutes later, you're lighting a cigarette.
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
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.
Make it a point to do something every day that you dont want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mentally, the last couple of games, we were all aware of the situation. I don't think it changes a thing. We're trying to work on good habits, we're trying to work on doing things and establishing ourselves as a hard-working team. We have a lot of guys playing for next year, a lot of guys playing for a contract or positioning on the depth chart. We have a lot of guys with a lot to play for. So I don't know if it changes anything for us.
For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.