Habit Quotes (872 Quotes)


    It all depends on what the Fed does and the Fed has a habit over the years of overdoing things in both directions. If they stop soon, that's positive for stocks, if not, that could be a problem.

    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.

    The key is to practice each week like you're going to play. Even if you don't play that game, you're still developing good habits, still fine-tuning your game, so when your number is called, you're able to go out there and perform.

    It's been well documented that we're on a losing streak. Winning is a habit, but unfortunately losing is a habit, as well. We need to start breaking some habits around here.

    Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they did as armed combatants. Wallowing in their pain and at times in self-pity, they are often incapable of facing the human suffering and death they inflicted, especially on the defenseless and the weak. They have a habit of disregarding, as they did during the war, the people who live in the lands they brutalized. Walking among the very human beings who bear the scars of war, they see only their own ghosts.


    He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful. It really depends on the young mans desire, commitment, work habits, and how important it is to him when he returns.


    Sometimes you still want to reach back and grab the guy who took the puck away. It shouldn't be a habit anymore, but it's still a guy's natural instinct. Overall, I like the way the game is being played and officiated.

    It's satisfying, yeah. But do you want to make a habit of that No. I could have given up eight runs tonight with the stuff I was throwing up there. But sometimes you've just got to battle, try to bear down and keep your team in the game.

    The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.


    I abused drugs for about seven months, ... It started in the summer of 1987 when I was nineteen years old. I was out of school, running around with the wrong crowd. I was doing lace a mixture of crack and marijuana. And what happened was, in my mind, the drug became the only value that mattered. I was involved in something that I'd lost control over. My responsibilities become secondary to the drug. I began to change as a person. I was acting crazy. Finally, one night, I went into my mother's room when she was sleeping, woke her up, and told her, 'Mom I'm in trouble. I have a problem.' She was like, 'What are you talking about' And I said, 'Mom I'm messed up. I'm using drugs.' We cried all night. She was very hurt, and I felt horrible because of the shame and hurt I was bringing her. Neither of us was educated on the matter, but we found out where I could go to get help. I went into a residential rehab program for six months. I had to do some rebuilding. They educated me about my problems and my purpose in life, and I'm a better person now because of the experience. I learned from my mistake and put it behind me. I could have given up on myself. I know people who have battled drugs for years and never kicked the habit. But I beat it. It never resurfaced, and I'm very proud of that.

    He has the potential, he has the attitude and he has the good habits. He's selfless, a keen learner and, though there's some way to go, he's improved immensely.

    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.



    We wanted to develop a plan to make winning a habit instead of accepting losing. In past years we've had some success, but there were stretches where we had a lot of losses and it brought out some negative attitudes.

    For one of our Rogue movies targeted at young men, we absolutely have to invest in the Internet. But if we're going after audiences over 30, the habits of 10 years ago still work fine.


    If you have been in the habit of inviting negative thoughts jealousy, envy, resentment, and self-pity, think of these as intruders in your mind. The old Chinese saying fits here 'You cannot stop the birds of the air from flying over your head, but you need not let them nest in your hair.' Face and define your troubles. Gather your worries to God. Do all you can about the situation that is causing them. Don't contaminate your friends and loved ones with them.


    If you know your fundamentals, you will enjoy the game a lot more. Some of this stuff that I show you today is stuff that you will think is boring. The truth is, if you just do these drills today, you will not get better. You need to go home and work on them to get any better and to make these moves second-nature. Habits, good ones or bad ones, are hard to break.




    Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so strong as widespread. But the time must come where in humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by th

    The love of duality, this evil practice, this bad habit, is not liked by the Lord's slaves. It is not pleasing to the Lord's slaves without the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, how can they find peace, even for a moment



    My lower half was not there. At times it was like I was trying to pitch stiff-legged. Physically, I fell into some bad habits, and that hurt my arm. It got to a point where I wasn't even a big-league pitcher.


    The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

    If good habits are fatty unhealthy food, well be eating them every single second, if good habits were cigarettes, well be smoking all day long, if good habits are drinking and addiction, we will love to buy alcohol and drugs and even distribute them and if good habits lead to adultery, violence, wars and misery, well be the first to seed them ... but good habits are not any of these ... so no one bother.

    Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real ''horror vacuum.''





    It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.






    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.


    I think we just went back to our bad habit that we've been having trouble with, losing our focus. When teams make a run, you have to make a run back at them. That happens. We just have to keep playing through it, and hopefully those bad habits can stay further and further away.



    We have a habit of giving customers what they want, and when a customer has six kids in their car or their favorite pets and it's raining or snowing, that's creating an experience for them that will want to make them use a drive-through.



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