If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
Habit Quotes (872 Quotes)
I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
How about a little mental intensity How about substituting some of that if you get tired Let's develop it. It's a habit of giving all that you have three hours a night.
The formation of right habits is essential to your permanent security. They diminish your chance of falling when assailed, and they augment your chance of recovery when overthrown.
We like to think that we are stronger than our compulsions. But when time after time we can't break a habit we so badly want to eliminate, we begin to realize that maybe our will power and self control aren't as strong as we thought they were. Maybe we are just as weak as everybody else.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Americans used to change designs every seven or eight years in the last century. Now we do it every 25 years or so, ... We've gotten out of the habit.
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
It's hard to break old habits, but they got some time under their belts (Tuesday night). We just wanted to get a chance to try it out before we get to some tougher games.
I applaud the willingness of the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi to take on the task of educating students and parents about the dangers of obesity and how they can develop healthy eating habits, both at home and at school,
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself
When I first quit all those years ago, I missed going to the gym as it had become such a habit.
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious exercises to the promptings of impulse, we become creatures of impulse rather than soldiers of Christ. An army made up of creatures of impulse would be only a mob. So is a church.
They weren't bad talent-wise, they just didn't have the habits you have to have to win, ... It's a mental thing. I had to get them to look at the glass as half full.
It's not so much quantity as it is quality. In our daily preparation, it's routine stuff. We emphasize fundamentals We catch the ball and try to throw it straight. You try to find some type of comfort zone where if my practice habits are good, they carry over into the game.
All I knew is my son was supposed to stay away from tree nuts. But we were not in the habit of reading food labels. We also didn't think of the food allergy in terms of life and death.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
My parents were extremely generous. The people they would get to work for them might not have regular bathing habits, but they'd be good at wearing masking tape on their nipples.
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
Traveler's checks are nice to have if you have a habit of losing things or are traveling to a destination with a high crime threat, or to a very remote area. Otherwise, ATMs are virtually everywhere these days, with most accepting a variety of cards.
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.
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.
It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.
A personal trainer will create a special program for you and will keep you motivated. He will help you start on the proper plan and the right mind set. He can also help you change your diet habits.
You see it day in and day out. You may even see a little bit more focus and just talk about the little things, the good habits. You look at his play, he's been scoring big goals for us and killing penalties. And I think if you're going to talk it, you have to lead it. He's done both.
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economised by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Be grateful for the kindly friends that walk along your way Be grateful for the skies of blue that smile from day to day Be grateful for the health you own, the work you find to do, For round about you there are men less fortunate than you. Be grateful for the growing trees, the roses soon to bloom, The tenderness of kindly hearts that shared your days of gloom Be grateful for the morning dew, the grass beneath your feet, The soft caresses of your babes and all their laughter sweet. Acquire the grateful habit, learn to see how blest you are, How much there is to gladden life, how little life to mar And what if rain shall fall today and you with grief are sad Be grateful that you can recall the joys that you have had.
Usually when I get into that habit, soft toss corrects that. In terms of checking where you are and where you hit the ball, the tee was good for that.
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxeddown the stairs one step at a time.
The negative is, it calls for creative planning. Coaches are creatures of habit, and it causes you to have to do some different things in your practice and planning.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
The combination of trying to offset both the pollution and devastating our natural resources - which are the kind of habits we should get over.
Habit with him was all the test of truth, 'It must be right I've done it from my youth'.
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.