Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
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.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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.
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.
When I arrived in L.A., 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.
Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.
There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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.
I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.