Habit Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 18, 2024
‘Quality is not an act, it is a habit.’ – Aristotle
‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.’ – Will Durant
‘Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.’ – Jules Renard
‘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.’ – Colin Powell
‘Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.’ – George Washington Carver
‘Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.’ – Brian Tracy
‘Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.’ – Warren Buffett
‘Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.’ – Vince Lombardi
‘Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.’ – George Gurdjieff
‘Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.’ – Jim Ryun
‘Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.’ – Ralph Marston
‘The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.’ – James Allen
‘I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.’ – Arthur Conan Doyle
‘Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.’ – Peter Ustinov
‘We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh
‘Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.’ – Hippocrates
‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.’ – Samuel Johnson
‘Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.’ – G. Stanley Hall
‘Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer
‘Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.’ – Horace Mann
‘Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.’ – Rene Descartes
‘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.’ – Gary Ryan Blair
‘Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.’ – Saint Augustine
‘A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.’ – Aldous Huxley
‘A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.’ – Thomas Paine
‘I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.’ – Og Mandino
‘Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.’ – Natalie Massenet
‘After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.’ – Mickey Mantle
‘Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton
‘Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.’ – Norman Vincent Peale
‘Doing one thing by yourself, for yourself, that creates joy is such an important habit.’ – Jay Shetty
‘Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.’ – Maya Angelou
‘For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” – Shaquille O’Neal
‘Habit is a great deadener.’ – Samuel Beckett
‘As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional – your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.’ – Chris Fussell
‘There is no influence like the influence of habit.’ – Gilbert Parker
‘A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.’ – Shannon Sharpe
‘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.’ – Audre Lorde
‘Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.’ – William James
‘Character is simply habit long continued.’ – Plutarch
‘The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.’ – Michelle Obama
‘There is a saying, ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.’ – Peng Liyuan
‘The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.’ – Steven Pressfield
‘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.’ – Woody Guthrie
‘Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.’ – Blaise Pascal
‘Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.’ – Herbert Kaufman
‘The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.’ – Henry Moore
‘Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.’ – Mary Martin
‘I struggled to kick the habit – I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn’t resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr’s book ‘The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.’ After I read that book, I didn’t touch a fag again.’ – Mahesh Babu
‘I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there’s that.’ – Don Rickles
‘Habit is ten times nature.’ – Duke of Wellington
‘Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.’ – Tom Conti
‘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.’ – Marcel Proust
‘Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.’ – W. Somerset Maugham
‘We say the name of God, but that is only habit.’ – Nikita Khrushchev
‘It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru
‘I’m very much a creature of habit.’ – Eminem
‘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.’ – Anne Hathaway
‘Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.’ – Helen Keller
‘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.’ – David Attenborough
‘Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.’ – Epictetus
‘It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.’ – Rollo May
‘I’ll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup – I know, it’s a horrible habit – and people will steal the cup.’ – Jenna Jameson
‘Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.’ – Henry Adams
‘Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.’ – Rutherford B. Hayes
‘I feel like I’m a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go – I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it’s like, ‘Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.” – J. Cole
‘As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.’ – Henry Van Dyke
‘Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.’ – Andre Maurois
‘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.’ – Albert Camus
‘To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.’ – Maxwell Maltz
‘Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.’ – Salvador Dali
‘Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.’ – Edith Wharton
‘Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.’ – Drew Barrymore
‘I personally don’t think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.’ – Ed Sheeran
‘I’ve got my dad’s height and smoking habit. But I think I’ve got my mum’s looks and sensibilities.’ – Max Irons
‘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.’ – Melissa Leo
‘We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We’re haunted by our particular demons.’ – Sara Zarr
‘Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.’ – Charles Simmons
‘The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.’ – George Lois
‘If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.’ – Mahavira
‘I’m not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.’ – Norman Foster
‘The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn’t make people happy.’ – James Surowiecki
‘Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.’ – Dale Carnegie
‘Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.’ – Twyla Tharp
‘True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.’ – Jean Cocteau
‘Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero
‘Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.’ – Aristotle
‘Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.’ – Shiv Khera
‘Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.’ – George Bernard Shaw
‘When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured… At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila
‘Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.’ – Amy Cuddy
‘Every habit is made of three parts… a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior, but these cues and rewards are really the way you make something into a habit.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.’ – Helen Hayes
‘I had a bad habit of falling in love with any girl who was nice to me.’ – Ruskin Bond
‘The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.’ – B. R. Ambedkar
‘Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.’ – Virginia Woolf
‘Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.’ – Sydney Smith
‘When you’re doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what’s expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.’ – Dick Costolo
‘When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.’ – James Baldwin
‘The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson
‘The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.’ – Charles Sanders Peirce
‘If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.’ – Paul Williams
‘You know you’re living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell – smell being just as important to you as how the product works.’ – Karen Salmansohn
‘A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.’ – Desiderius Erasmus
‘I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.’ – Henry David Thoreau
‘There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.’ – Kenneth H. Cooper
‘A habit does not a monk make.’ – Francois Rabelais
‘Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.’ – Vince Lombardi
‘Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.’ – Bertrand Russell
‘Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.’ – David Lloyd George
‘The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘I’ve made it a habit not to burn any bridges.’ – Robin Leach
‘Habit is the nursery of errors.’ – Victor Hugo
‘The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘My wife had a bad habit of biting her nails, but I cured her. I hid her teeth.’ – Tommy Cooper
‘To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.’ – John Quincy Adams
‘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.’ – Christopher Morley
‘The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.’ – Mel Robbins
‘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.’ – Tacitus
‘When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.’ – Crystal Gayle
‘I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don’t want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that’s why I always, always try to get a workout in.’ – Jake Paul
‘Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.’ – Alphonse de Lamartine
‘The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.’ – William Kingdon Clifford
‘Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.’ – Benjamin Franklin
‘To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.’ – Miguel de Unamuno
‘People are incredible creatures of habit.’ – Sam Altman
‘Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.’ – Charles Reade
‘Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.’ – Lee Trevino
‘Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun’s habit, a surgeon’s scrubs, a cop’s uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.’ – Victor LaValle
‘Everything seems fine until you’re about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, ‘While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it’s a funny thing, but I’m an exception to that rule.” – Martin Amis
‘Habit is stronger than reason.’ – George Santayana
‘In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn’t categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there’s too much I liked about it to give it up completely.’ – Mark Hamill
‘Fortunately, good posture – like poor posture – is habit forming.’ – Denise Austin
‘Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.’ – Robert Smithson
‘The truth won’t set us free – until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.’ – Margaret Heffernan
‘The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.’ – Deepak Chopra
‘Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.’ – Margaret Atwood
‘Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright
‘When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.’ – Tycho Brahe
‘All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
‘The habit of breaking up one’s colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism – Couture advocates it in a little book called ‘Causeries d’Atelier’ written about 1860 – it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.’ – John Singer Sargent
‘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.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.’ – Chinua Achebe
‘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.’ – Nick Harkaway
‘The habit of doing more than you are paid for can benefit any business that sells a product or service. Learning and understanding the principle of the mastermind philosophy of networking can increase the value of your network and your net worth.’ – Clay Clark
‘One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.’ – Hunter S. Thompson
‘When you’re walking at the airport, you’re expected to smile at people because they know you… I find that tough. I’m only trying to protect myself. So I don’t take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it’s actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it’s a defense mechanism.’ – Katrina Kaif
‘It’s a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.’ – Michael Jordan
‘There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.’ – David Grinspoon
‘Life never becomes a habit to me. It’s always a marvel.’ – Katherine Mansfield
‘In the past 3-4 years I’ve developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I’m able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.’ – Dwight Yoakam
‘Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person’s right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.’ – Alcee Hastings
‘My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn’t like baseball caps so I got a beret.’ – Jamie Hyneman
‘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.’ – Walter Pater
‘Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.’ – Publilius Syrus
‘Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.’ – Loretta Young
‘Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.’ – Emil Cioran
‘I can be impatient. But I don’t think it’s always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.’ – Brant Daugherty
‘Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.’ – Henry Van Dyke
‘Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.’ – Francis Bacon
‘In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.’ – Billie Holiday
‘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.’ – Aristotle
‘My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It’s the new ones that I haven’t identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body – at least by mine.’ – Ted Danson
‘I loved playing cricket from my childhood. My dad made me play in the streets, and my interest grew. He put me in a club, seeing this. My habit grew from that point.’ – Babar Azam
‘The finger lick is just a really bad habit – I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill me if I do it at dinner one more time. I look like an animal about to dig in.’ – Peyton Manning
‘Probably my worst habit is, when I get really stressed out, down to the wire, and Im trying to find clothes or find something, literally anything, I throw everything everywhere, and I dont pick it up because Im in that anxious space, still.’ – Renee Rapp
‘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.’ – W. Clement Stone
‘In a scholarly manner I have made it a habit to collect different crowd-control manuals, and I read them to the police sort of reminding them of basic tenants of crowd control, such as minimum use of force to effect an arrest. I tell… the police that they may have been put in a dangerous situation by their superiors.’ – Vermin Supreme
‘Character is long-standing habit.’ – Plutarch
‘Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero
‘The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.’ – Peter Ustinov
‘Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner’s history.’ – Vernon Howard
‘Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.’ – Vince Lombardi
‘With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley
‘The king and the dauphin both like to see me on horseback. I only say this because all the world perceives it, and especially while we were absent from Versailles, they were delighted to see me in my riding habit.’ – Marie Antoinette
‘Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn’t see much of me at Ayr United because he always played a round on Saturdays. He was an old-school parent of his time and I’ve no complaints.’ – Steve Nicol
‘Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.’ – Marcel Proust
‘Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.’ – W. Somerset Maugham
‘The brank, or scold’s bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.’ – Alice Morse Earle
‘The first thing I do every morning is make my bed. It’s a habit I’m sure my parents wish I had picked up as a teenager instead of as an adult!’ – Andi Dorfman
‘I really enjoy what I do, and who I’m with and where I am. Having said that, I’m not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.’ – Robert Smith
‘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.’ – Andre Maurois
‘I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.’ – Satyajit Ray
‘Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.’ – Thomas Jordan Jarvis
‘Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.’ – Karen Salmansohn
‘The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘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.’ – Aldous Huxley
‘For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They’d measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.’ – Charles Kuralt
”The Power of Habit’ is the exact kind of non-fiction I love. It’s smart and interesting, and it changes your perception how you do what you do or why you are who you are.’ – Rachel Hollis
‘I trained myself out of the habit of relying on notifications to make me feel good so that I could dedicate my time to my personal two-hour meditation practice every morning.’ – Jay Shetty
‘The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the habit of reading, watching, and preserving.’ – Manoj Bajpayee
‘Forming a good habit early in life is very important as it goes on to become your nature.’ – Rekha
‘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.’ – Martin Henderson
‘My worst habit is probably that I’m extremely messy. I’m a big scatter-brain – I’m always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.’ – Georgia Salpa
‘You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.’ – T. Harv Eker
‘I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.’ – Haruki Murakami
‘When you get into the habit of leaving a space, you become a much better player for it. If you’ve got an expressive style, and can express your emotions through your guitar, and you’ve got a great tone, it creates a lot of tension for the audience. It’s all down to the feel thing.’ – Gary Moore
‘I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.’ – Khloe Kardashian
‘All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.’ – Aristotle
‘The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.’ – Leo Aikman
‘Professors simply can’t discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.’ – Hal Boyle
‘I’ve been in the habit of helping people.’ – Seamus Heaney
‘You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.’ – Joe Paterno
‘The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.’ – Gail Sheehy
‘Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.’ – Edward Everett Hale
‘Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.’ – Alphonsus Liguori
‘I’m reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it’s an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It’s become my habit. I just carry on.’ – Lee Kuan Yew
‘I’m not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.’ – Miriam Defensor-Santiago
‘We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then – and this is the best part – we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we’re free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.’ – Gretchen Rubin
‘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.’ – Alfred Doblin
‘Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.’ – Marie Curie
‘I’ve developed a karaoke habit. I’ve become a crooner.’ – Serena Williams
‘It’s been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.’ – Akira Toriyama
‘Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.’ – Walt Mossberg
‘Music is not just love for me; it’s a way of life, a habit.’ – Jubin Nautiyal
‘If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it’s because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.’ – Pema Chodron
‘There’s something called the ‘Washington Read,’ which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they’re in there.’ – Mark Leibovich
‘Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.’ – George A. Smith
‘Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?’ – Herman Melville
‘Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don’t have time to read.’ – Marilyn vos Savant
‘The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.’ – David Brin
‘Never been in the habit to look back.’ – Brock Lesnar
‘When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.’ – Bertrand Russell
‘If one undertakes retrospection of the day’s events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.’ – Mahavira
‘I got a bad habit of creating.’ – Rza
‘I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson
‘In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.’ – Julia Glass
‘I suppose if you’ve never bitten your nails, there isn’t any way to explain the habit. It’s not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction – pride in a job well done.’ – Anderson Cooper
‘Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don’t get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.’ – Marilyn vos Savant
‘At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.’ – Seamus Heaney
‘Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.’ – Thomas Babington Macaulay
‘Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.’ – William Inge
‘My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.’ – Divya Khosla Kumar
‘When someone tells me they want to start a diet, I’ll suggest they start by aiming to drink half their body weight in ounces of water every day. It’s much easier to add a habit than to take one away, but the water goal is a challenge. When they conquer that for the month, they’ve set a new standard for achievement and can add on something tougher.’ – Rachel Hollis
‘Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit.’ – Salman Rushdie
‘Both my best and my worst habit is that I’m very impulsive.’ – Tove Lo
‘I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.’ – Lemmy
‘It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll
‘We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
‘PS: It’s all gossip about the prince. I’m not in the habit of taking my girlfriends’ beaux.’ – Wallis Simpson
‘Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.’ – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
‘Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.’ – Charles de Gaulle
‘How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.’ – Jack Nicklaus
‘Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.’ – Craig Kilborn
‘People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.’ – John Jay Chapman
‘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.’ – Martha Gellhorn
‘The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.’ – William Winwood Reade
‘Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.’ – Tryon Edwards
‘The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people’s minds.’ – Walter Bagehot
‘Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.’ – Barbara W. Tuchman
‘Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.’ – Ernest Dimnet
‘Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.’ – Norman Cousins
‘No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.’ – Bernard de Mandeville
‘Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.’ – Orison Swett Marden
‘Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.’ – Alistair Cooke
‘Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.’ – Ovid
‘Life – how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.’ – V. S. Pritchett
‘The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.’ – Anthony Trollope
‘Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.’ – Kin Hubbard
‘By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.’ – O. Henry
‘My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.’ – Billy Boyd
‘I’ve been curious about certain things, but didn’t let them get in the way of my life. I don’t know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.’ – Tobey Maguire
‘Never permit failure to become a habit.’ – William Frederick Book
‘Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.’ – Loretta Young
‘If you become president, you’re guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.’ – Rich Little
‘Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.’ – Joan Chen
‘Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.’ – Jack Osbourne
‘The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.’ – Stendhal
‘What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.’ – Victor Cherbuliez
‘President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.’ – Wilbur Mills
‘I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.’ – Francis W. Newman
‘My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.’ – Eric Allin Cornell
‘To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.’ – Robert B. Laughlin
‘My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.’ – Lynn Abbey
‘My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.’ – Luke Ford
‘While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ – Sarah Vowell
‘As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.’ – Gerrit Smith
‘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.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘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.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.’ – Henry Williamson
‘I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle’s, on the dining table.’ – Patrick White
‘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.’ – Henry Mayhew
‘You get to where you kind of like it, and It’s a habit That’s hard to break. I still find myself sittin’ in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.’ – Chris LeDoux
‘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.’ – Martha Beck
‘Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.’ – Delia Smith
‘Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.’ – Frank A. Clark
‘I’m still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.’ – Mike Krzyzewski
‘I’m trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I’ll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.’ – Corey Haim
‘In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!’ – Edmund Husserl
‘The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.’ – Maria Mitchell
‘Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.’ – Andrew Coyle Bradley
‘Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.’ – Chauncey Wright
‘Joe Kennedy isn’t in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn’t have lasted three months if I didn’t have some ability.’ – Sargent Shriver
‘The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.’ – Edward Burnett Tylor
‘It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.’ – Elihu Root
‘I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn’t out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.’ – Claire Danes
‘I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.’ – Allyson Schwartz
‘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.’ – Vinoba Bhave
‘We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.’ – Morley Safer
‘Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.’ – David Guterson
‘I am not a creature of habit.’ – Tony Visconti
‘Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.’ – Joe Eszterhas
‘I’m a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.’ – Jason Schwartzman
‘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.’ – Mohsen Makhmalbaf
‘I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.’ – John Hewson
‘Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I’ve been doing it since I was two.’ – Balthazar Getty
‘I don’t make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can’t, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.’ – Ivan Lendl
‘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.’ – Mike Ditka
‘I’ve retired so many times now it’s getting to be a habit.’ – Dick Van Dyke
‘You know, I’m almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.’ – Dick Van Dyke
‘For me, habit is just a synonym for death.’ – Juliette Binoche
‘As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.’ – Simon Newcomb
‘Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?’ – Marilyn vos Savant
‘I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don’t want to do.’ – Wynton Marsalis
‘So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.’ – Susan Sarandon
‘Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.’ – Nana Mouskouri
‘Winning is a habit.’ – Leo Durocher
‘Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.’ – Aldous Huxley
‘The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.’ – Anthony Burgess
‘It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.’ – Christopher Morley
‘Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.’ – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
‘Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.’ – Ernest Dimnet
‘Hunger also changes the world – when eating can’t be a habit, then neither can seeing.’ – Maxine Hong Kingston
‘Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.’ – Adrian Grenier
‘A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.’ – Charles Sanders Peirce
‘If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.’ – Mason Cooley
‘One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.’ – Georg C. Lichtenberg
‘To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.’ – Emil Cioran
‘Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
‘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.’ – Arthur Hays Sulzberger
‘Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.’ – Mike Hawkins
‘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.’ – Cindy Sherman
‘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.’ – Sean Astin
‘Over the last four years, I’ve made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.’ – Seth Green
‘My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.’ – Katherine Heigl
‘If there’s friends around, I’ll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it’s a shame really because I know it’s good for me. It’s something quite therapeutic.’ – Michael Fassbender
‘I’ve never been to a festival. I’m a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa’s squishy. Maybe too squishy – it’s hard to get up sometimes.’ – Martin Freeman
‘I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I’m only 5’7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn’t active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.’ – Jerry Ferrara
‘If I’m not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.’ – Catherine McCormack
‘I can’t sit around doing nothing. If I’m not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.’ – Catherine McCormack
‘I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.’ – Claire McCaskill
‘I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I’m getting better about it as I’m getting older.’ – Cynthia Nixon
‘Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.’ – Shigeru Miyamoto
‘It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.’ – Deborah Norville
‘Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.’ – Joel Osteen
‘I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.’ – Trey Parker
‘While they’re in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I’ll probably always say ‘we,’ even though I’ve resigned as the CEO. It’s kind of hard to break a 30-year habit.’ – Linda McMahon
‘In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.’ – Daniel Day-Lewis
‘I am a creature of habit.’ – Jennifer Aniston
‘Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.’ – Richard Stallman
‘We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, ‘I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.” – John Green
‘I’ve directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn’t make a habit of it because it’s too consuming.’ – Brian Cox
‘Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn’t have a good network.’ – Pauline Neville-Jones
‘My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, ‘What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?’ That’s terrible habit for an actor, but that’s a good habit for director. So I became a director.’ – David Mamet
‘Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.’ – David Mamet
‘I have no business being a journalist. I’m the least, I’m the least – I’m the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I’ve never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert
‘My habit would have been to veer towards the dark – to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that’s true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.’ – George Saunders
‘I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don’t know why. Habit.’ – Savannah Guthrie
‘So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make… A lot of my life is unexamined habit.’ – Kristin Bauer van Straten
‘My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn’t always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.’ – Peter Dinklage
‘I’m a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.’ – Jane Lynch
‘A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.’ – Lev Grossman
‘Here’s a habit I never thought I’d develop: I gravitate to anything online that’s marked ‘most popular’ or ‘most e-mailed.’ And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.’ – Susan Orlean
‘I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom – a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training – but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.’ – Susan Orlean
‘Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.’ – Julianna Baggott
‘If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.’ – Mary Gordon
‘Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.’ – Jane Smiley
‘Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children’s right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.’ – Michael Morpurgo
‘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.’ – Mike Leigh
‘I’m a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I’ll find something that suits me every time.’ – Jane Asher
‘Dating co-stars is natural. When you’re working with someone, it’s habit.’ – Rachel Bilson
‘New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they’re not conscious of a scene, it doesn’t exist.’ – Sloane Crosley
‘You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it’s a habit. I always say, ‘Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.’ There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.’ – Brett Hoebel
‘I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.’ – Kellan Lutz
‘I’m a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one’s listening. I think it’s just a habit of mindfulness.’ – Geraldine Brooks
‘For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.’ – Eli Roth
‘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.’ – Emma Donoghue
‘Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.’ – Li Yuanchao
‘The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.’ – Li Yuanchao
‘It’s not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I’m a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.’ – Kris Humphries
‘I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can’t find the time, there are people who’ve never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.’ – David Nicholls
‘I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.’ – Barbara Mertz
‘My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.’ – Ariel Gore
‘Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.’ – Sharon Salzberg
‘I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.’ – Marina Abramovic
‘What is the meaning of ‘gossip?’ Doesn’t it originate with sympathy, an interest in one’s neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one’s self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?’ – Lucy Larcom
‘Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.’ – Sharon Horgan
‘If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I’ve got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.’ – Rebel Wilson
‘Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand – by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person – it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I’m not putting it down.’ – Viggo Mortensen
‘Be kind. It’s worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious – and if you get into the habit of doing that – it’s the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren’t totally opposite.’ – Viggo Mortensen
‘It’s lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I’ve made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There’s joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it’s not yours.’ – Ben Marcus
‘Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I’ve been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.’ – Roshon Fegan
‘Every time I’ve made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I’ve gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.’ – Dermot Mulroney
‘Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.’ – Harry Morgan
‘It’s not my habit to kiss and tell. I’ve never done it.’ – Simon Cowell
‘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.’ – Aidan Gillen
‘I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.’ – Mila Kunis
‘When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.’ – Jake Gyllenhaal
‘My love of maple syrup. I’ve been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it’s gone. It’s a habit I have to stave off. I don’t want to lose all my teeth.’ – Rufus Wainwright
‘I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.’ – Rufus Wainwright
‘Nothing’s more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section – or more ruinously expensive. So it’s good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.’ – Jonny Greenwood
‘My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.’ – Eva Longoria
‘I don’t have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don’t even realise that you’ve lost something: silence.’ – Viggo Mortensen
‘Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.’ – Sherry Turkle
‘If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.’ – Erin McKean
‘I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.’ – Gilbert Gottfried
‘It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it’s just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students’ repertoire rather than teaching them out of what’s thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.’ – John McWhorter
‘I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.’ – Margaret Heffernan
‘I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it’s quite hard. If you give up a second time, it’s a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it’s starting to become a habit.’ – Lewis Gordon Pugh
‘People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.’ – Julian Baggini
‘Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.’ – Julian Baggini
‘It’s 2009, things change. I’m a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that’s not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see ‘Witch Mountain’ again.’ – Kim Richards
‘Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.’ – Joyce Meyer
‘I can’t stop biting my nails. It’s a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don’t like geometry, but for me it’s fun.’ – Khleo
‘I read God’s word when I am not suffering. And then I don’t have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.’ – Anne Graham Lotz
‘If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.’ – Margaret Atwood
‘The fact is that our kids aren’t reading books – or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it’s their job, and not the school’s job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.’ – James Patterson
‘For some time it’s been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.’ – Dario Fo
‘I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.’ – Esha Gupta
‘I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.’ – Madhur Bhandarkar
‘Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that’s common to every single one of them. Right?… So it’s reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.’ – Douglas Rushkoff
‘It’s me, it’s my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it’s my habit.’ – Roberto Benigni
”The Creative Habit’ is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. ‘The Collaborative Habit’ is obviously about surviving with other people.’ – Twyla Tharp
‘I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I’m not sure why I did it, but it’s a pretty depressing state.’ – Laura Mvula
‘People aren’t religious because it’s easy not to be. Like anything, it’s habitual, and once it’s a habit it’s no longer hard.’ – Matisyahu
‘The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.’ – Katharine Lee Bates
‘No one is guaranteed their next moment, or their next breath; yet, humanity has a habit of thinking of its existence on the earth as eternal. Those who are rooted and grounded in Christ know that life is just a vapor.’ – Monica Johnson
‘I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.’ – Maisie Williams
‘Bring your kids along next time you go to the grocery store and ask them to help find the price per unit for the general grocery items. By comparing brands and looking for the best prices, kids will get in the habit of looking for deals and understand the value of the dollar.’ – Alexa Von Tobel
‘When we’re trying to form and keep habits, we often search – even unconsciously – for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation.’ – Gretchen Rubin
‘Habit allows us to go from ‘before’ to ‘after,’ to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious – and rightly so – for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.’ – Gretchen Rubin
‘Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it’s just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.’ – Gretchen Rubin
‘Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it’s easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There’s an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.’ – Gretchen Rubin
‘I’ve found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer – the kind that you get to stir your to-go coffee. I picked up this habit from my husband, who loves to chew on things. His favorite chew-toy is a plastic pen top, and gnawed pen tops and little bits of plastic litter our apartment.’ – Gretchen Rubin
‘As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.’ – Prince Charles
‘My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness – whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.’ – F. Sionil Jose
‘I am a good boy. Sweet. I love to chill. I have a select set of friends, am big on house music, love Goa. I don’t read much. Though that is one habit I am trying to inculcate.’ – Shahid Kapoor
‘I’m focused on the next generation, because I think it’s very hard to break the habit of adults who’ve got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It’s very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.’ – Alice Waters
‘Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.’ – Thomas Woods
‘For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.’ – Trey Gowdy
‘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.’ – Noreena Hertz
‘I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone’s morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.’ – Laurie Colwin
‘As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged – indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe’s long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.’ – Neil MacGregor
‘I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you’re excited about the music and you want to stay up longer, but over 15 years, it’s become a habit. In my circle, I think a lot of musicians operate like this. When the place is quiet, you’re more creative. I have plenty of people I can call at 4 A.M. and know they’ll be up.’ – Damian Marley
‘Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you’re doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.’ – Srikumar Rao
‘I’m a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.’ – Ben Elliot
‘My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I’m cruisin’ along and I’ll look at the clock and I haven’t eaten lunch. And I’ll run downstairs, and I’ll start shovelin’ stuff down the pie hole, and I’ll think, ‘That was no lunch at all.” – Summer Sanders
‘I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.’ – Karl Ove Knausgard
‘Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.’ – Stephen Kinzer
‘I have a shoe habit. If I’m in New York, it’s a problem because I’m walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it’s not as bad.’ – Kelly Rowan
‘I have a habit of getting very obsessive about one thing, but it usually lasts no more than three days.’ – Lizzy Caplan
‘I always joke that everything else that I do is to support my theater habit.’ – Megan Hilty
‘In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor ‘maestro’. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, ‘Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?” – Charles Hazlewood
‘France has a specificity – the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let’s say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.’ – Xavier Niel
‘You can’t suddenly say, ‘I want a brand new habit tomorrow,’ and expect it to be easy and effortless.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘When most individuals or most companies are talking about trying to create healthy habits, the key is to identify which habit or habits seem most important.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, ‘I’m going to create an evil habit for this corporation.” – Charles Duhigg
‘Even though it’s hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what’s on the radio.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps – the formula – is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it’s about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.’ – Taylor Mali
‘I’ve been deeply influenced by Aristotle’s idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. ‘The control of the appetites by right reason,’ is how he defined it.’ – Tim O’Reilly
‘Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.’ – John Updike
‘Browsing our local farmer’s market is one of my family’s favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you’ll reap the nutritional rewards.’ – Suzanne Somers
‘Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters’ moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.’ – Edmund White
‘I like writing, and I enjoy it. It’s painful. You can’t get around the pain of writing. I’m still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.’ – Gbenga Akinnagbe
‘I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.’ – Patrick Nielsen Hayden
‘My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I’m drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.’ – Karen Traviss
‘The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king’s power or, later, people’s power.’ – Orhan Pamuk
‘Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions.’ – Rohit Shetty
‘I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I’m in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.’ – Ellen Gilchrist
‘Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don’t get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.’ – Caroline Lawrence
‘The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.’ – Benjamin N. Cardozo
‘What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I’m lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.’ – Luanne Rice
‘We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren’t seeing the soul in there.’ – James Gleick
‘I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don’t understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.’ – Raza Jaffrey
‘I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.’ – Michael Redhill
‘I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.’ – Edie Campbell
‘Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.’ – Mona Simpson
‘I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they’re verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they’re happening.’ – Roz Chast
‘You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.’ – Kate Winslet
‘I always say, ‘I love producing, but directing is my passion,’ and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.’ – Michelle MacLaren
‘Twitter’s probably my bad habit.’ – Nicola Sturgeon
‘The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.’ – Anthony Newley
‘The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn’t feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.’ – Damien Rice
‘If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.’ – Joe Haldeman
‘I don’t make a habit of watching my parents’ films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch ‘House of Cards’ compulsively, and I think it’s the first time I’ve ever seen one of my mom’s projects and totally forgot she was my mom!’ – Dylan Penn
‘Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.’ – Orison Swett Marden
‘When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.’ – Orison Swett Marden
‘I can’t explain something I saw on holiday on Holy Island when I was about nine years old, but do you know what, it could have been my PE teacher dressed in a monk’s habit. I have no idea. I’m not a ghost person… it doesn’t mean there aren’t unexplained things; I just don’t think they’re ghosts.’ – Tom Goodman-Hill
‘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.’ – Martin Henderson
‘We’ve got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates
‘While it’s true a small treat won’t blow your budget, indulging every day could – the same way a slice of cake probably won’t hurt but, if you make it a daily habit, you may have trouble fitting in your pants.’ – Jean Chatzky
‘Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.’ – Dorothea Dix
‘When you’re trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you’re not so hungry that you can’t get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can’t fight hunger, but we can fight habit.’ – Jean Nidetch
‘When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that’s not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.’ – John Edgar Wideman
‘We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.’ – Alain Wertheimer
‘I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit – the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.’ – Zilpha Keatley Snyder
‘I’ve gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pumping and find my focus. I worked my way up from eight to 30. That was a real accomplishment.’ – Christie Brinkley
‘I talk to myself. It’s my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that’s weird!’ – Monique Roffey
‘It’s become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.’ – Xavier Dolan
‘My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don’t know why, I just ate it as a kid. It’s weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.’ – Courtney Eaton
‘Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go – particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.’ – Gayle Lynds
‘Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived – thru habit and not thru merit.’ – Letitia Baldrige
‘We’re drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it. Once you start drawing, writing, and gluing stuff in every day, it can quickly become a habit – addictive, even. Your attitude should be: ‘I can do this, but I mustn’t make it too intimidating.” – Keri Smith
‘A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould
‘An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.’ – H. P. Lovecraft
‘Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.’ – Jay Samit
‘Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.’ – Peter Landesman
‘Reading is so private, and it is often a reader’s habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.’ – Bobbie Ann Mason
‘The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.’ – Kate Williams
‘The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.’ – Tariq Ali
‘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.’ – Murray Rothbard
‘A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led – with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
‘During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.’ – Marie Curie
‘The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow’s flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow’s flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.’ – B. R. Ambedkar
‘You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?’ – Newt Gingrich
‘If you’re the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.’ – Pete Hamill
‘The cold truth is that the best products don’t always win. Many times it’s – the products that have the ability to keep users coming back and using them without conscious thought and using them out of habit are the ones that keep us coming back.’ – Nir Eyal
‘The Bible app is designed to make absorbing the Word as frictionless as possible. For example, to make the Bible app habit easier to adopt, a user who prefers to not read at all can simply tap a small icon, which plays a professionally produced audio track, read with all the dramatic bravado of Charlton Heston himself.’ – Nir Eyal
‘I think my worst habit is struggling with technology, even though I know how this stuff works, I need to bring conscious thought into how I use.’ – Nir Eyal
‘I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I’ve ever visited into the historical person I’d have most wanted to meet and share a cigarette with.’ – Brin-Jonathan Butler
‘The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie ‘Farrell for the People.’ I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.’ – Fred Silverman
‘In high school, I had a gold 1992 Ford Explorer. It was a gift. I used to have a terrible habit of locking the keys in the car when I used leave the car running to help it start on a cold morning. I think the local locksmith became used to me calling him.’ – Ashton Eaton
‘My father’s mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms – partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn’t like being defined by other people.’ – Pawel Pawlikowski
‘My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places… I’ll leave what I mean by ‘places’ ambiguous.’ – Terrance Hayes
‘I’m a Republican. I’m a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking – a lot – about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand – right or wrong, agree or disagree – on anything.’ – Curt Schilling
‘What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?’ – William Godwin
‘What I think is remarkable is the force of habit and the fact that while we can have a practice for doing something that has been repetitive and established over many, many years, it doesn’t actually mean there’s any virtue to doing it that way at all.’ – Jonathan Ive
‘As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I’ve loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It’s both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it’s not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.’ – Bob Saget
‘If I don’t work very often, it’s because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full.’ – Isabelle Adjani
‘When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.’ – Lynn Good
‘I think it’s a bad habit for an actor to change scripts because that’s not your job. You’re not a writer, necessarily – although there are some actors that are good at it.’ – Justin Theroux
‘The habit I’ve developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.’ – Cass Sunstein
‘Pugs are creatures of habit.’ – Lydia Millet
‘Americans’ distrust of the conspicuously intellectual – a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character – has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners’ patience for music that is especially complex or austere.’ – Steven Stucky
‘There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.’ – James Turrell
‘The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all – that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open – has disappeared.’ – Federico Fellini
‘Changing a habit or routine doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time and may take easing into the change to make it work for you. Waking up earlier is no exception.’ – John Rampton
‘Most athletes, we’re the good ol’ boys, part of the good-ol’-boy fraternity, and we take care of our brothers, and we cover up the bad habit and the bad play.’ – Terry Bradshaw
‘I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.’ – Marina Abramovic
‘People are used to streaming and binge-watching. When they see an author they like, if there’s only one book, even if they like the book, they’re going to forget about you. The way to keep you in their mind and to get you to become a habit for these readers is you have to have a lot of product out there for them to read.’ – Marcia Clark
‘When, in 2015, Greece decided by referendum to reject Brussels’ austerity plans, the European Union’s antidemocratic response took no one by surprise: To deny the people’s will had become a habit.’ – Marine Le Pen
‘Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.’ – Dana Perino
‘There is freedom in forgiveness, and it’s not that hard to do once you get into the habit.’ – Dana Perino
‘I’m not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I’m in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.’ – Verite
‘I make a habit of asking myself, ‘Is there purpose to this meeting or conversation? Do I want to build a relationship with this person or company? Is there purpose behind this meeting that aligns with my life and business strategy?’ If the answer is ‘No,’ then I pass every time.’ – Brandon Webb
‘John McCain and Lindsay Graham have a habit of communicating with great passion and regularity. I have great respect for both individuals, but their style is not everyone’s style.’ – Todd Young
‘I grew up always having dessert after dinner. Always. It’s such a hard habit for me to break. It’s fine to have dessert every once in a while, but not seven days a week!’ – Alex Morgan
‘I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, ‘This is the issue that beats all other issues,’ or, ‘Your issue doesn’t matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.” – Naomi Klein
‘There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to drive me there at night and pick me up when it closed. I think he was worried about this routine but never let on. Also, I kept this a secret from my friends, as I don’t think it would have been considered the ‘coolest’ habit.’ – Jeffrey Tambor
‘My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.’ – Jodi Balfour
‘Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such a character taking root on American soil. Trump’s reasons for aligning with Putin have been more innocent, if no less dangerous.’ – Franklin Foer
‘Online shopping makes everything so much easier – it’s a bad habit of mine.’ – Barbara Palvin
‘Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it’s like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.’ – Derek Walcott
‘I make it a habit of never trying to judge what an audience might think, only because all points of view are too close, because we’re doing it every day, I think that the actor’s point of view is sometimes too close to what the material actually is.’ – Joe Morton
‘I’m very much a creature of habit. I don’t like to try to new things.’ – Eliot Sumner
‘I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper – not on my phone – before I go to bed.’ – Katrina Lake
‘While interrupting is not always wrong, it should never become a habit.’ – Julian Treasure
‘If you’ve ever tried to start up the habit of early-morning exercise, you have probably encountered how easy it is to get derailed by too much choice.’ – Shawn Achor
‘I happen to have an expensive clothing habit, so, for me, designing clothes is a way to kill two birds with one stone.’ – Nick Wooster
‘I wonder sometimes if I’ve got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say.’ – Katherine Waterston
‘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.’ – Theo Epstein
‘When you play, you do not ask yourself how it feels to be on the bench. You have to live it to understand how difficult it is to be there without being there. To enter a match knowing you do not have the confidence of the coach. To play when you simply don’t have the habit of playing.’ – Fernando Torres
‘You’d be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you’d be playing a club. You got into that habit: ‘If we don’t play, we don’t eat.” – Angus Young
‘Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!’ – Yolanda Hadid
‘I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.’ – Guillermo del Toro
‘I don’t have the habit of wearing ornaments.’ – Anushka Shetty
‘I went to – I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.’ – John Lithgow
‘I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.’ – Swara Bhaskar
‘Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you’re not happy. Or you’re being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don’t love each other; you’re just there out of habit. That doesn’t work, no matter how many years you stay together.’ – Ruby Dee
‘I quit steaks for a while, but it’s a hard habit to break.’ – Carrie-Anne Moss
‘I think, when I meet a person, in general, it’s not my habit to conclude anything about people. Not completely. Even people you know well constantly remain open.’ – Bennett Miller
‘I’ll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it’s not a good thing when you’re over more than a third of the plate.’ – Matt Cain
‘I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top of it and using some leverage to get it down in the strike zone or get some depth with the ball.’ – Matt Cain
‘Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.’ – Sigrid Nunez
‘Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I’d thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.’ – Jenna Wortham
‘The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert control, a desire to feel less, a desire to have my body express the things my voice could not. That, and I had gotten in the habit of believing it was better to take up less space.’ – Zoe Kazan
‘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.’ – Nina Agdal
‘I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.’ – Melina Matsoukas
‘The people I coach are very successful people, so it’s very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it’s trivial and not worth it, we still want to win – because we love winning. It’s a very deep habit.’ – Marshall Goldsmith
‘Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.’ – Mandy Ingber
‘Humans are animals of habit – they convince themselves they can’t change. And that premise is wrong.’ – Patrick Pichette
‘I’ve always been very un-fun. I’m a habit person. I have a very weak version of an addictive personality.’ – Josh Gondelman
‘I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!’ – Celeste Ng
‘People who know me know that I’m a rabid fan of the Kansas Jayhawks. My quirky habit is that every Kansas game is on my calendar, and, more often than not, I will plan and schedule flights around them so that I can engage and watch. I have already brainwashed my family to be Jayhawks fans.’ – Brad Garlinghouse
”Closure’ is the word used for a loss that’s not acknowledged – and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.’ – Alice Ripley
‘I have a horrible habit of buying merch tees. I go on people’s websites and look at all their merch because I’m interested in it, because we sell merch, too. And then, I always end up buying something.’ – Ryan Hurd
‘I grew out of the habit of thinking or worrying about being seen as the typical Asian. I don’t even know what that means anymore. I’m not really concerned with it.’ – Hong Chau
‘Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.’ – Jeff Bezos
‘Podcast listening, much like radio listening, is largely a question of habit. And the most powerful habits are the ones that fit into our daily routine.’ – David Hepworth
‘I’m basically a creature of habit – I do practically the same thing every week, every day of every week: I go to the office, I meet people, I write, I read, and, of course, I give lectures.’ – Mahathir Mohamad
‘I’ve developed a habit of people-watching. In Paris, I love watching all kinds of people walking by from my apartment terrace, and while I’m traveling the world, I enjoy observing all the people in airports.’ – Jeanne Damas
‘Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it’s a habit; every Estonian looks at it as part of our national identity. We understand that this allows us to provide better services to our people than our money would allow.’ – Kersti Kaljulaid
‘Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.’ – Dave Itzkoff
‘I have a habit of walking into any beauty store I pass just to check out what brand they have – since I like to recommend things to friends, I need to know what products are out there.’ – Hannah Bronfman
‘I am not going to eat something that I have been told is not good for my system, and I do what I can to eat energy food, such as lean meats, whole grains, and lots of fruit and vegetables. Without this daily habit, my body would have given up a long time ago. There is no magic pill, no magic drink, no magic food.’ – Bernard Hopkins
‘As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.’ – Gail Honeyman
‘How did a prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative become the hope of liberal radio? It all started with this annoying habit I have of speaking my mind.’ – Ed Schultz
‘Avoid the ‘squeaky wheel gets the grease’ habit of overreacting to the loudest feedback. The first time you hear a particular piece of feedback, treat it like a clue and do some investigating. Find out how deep it goes – maybe it stops at the surface and won’t be an issue, maybe not.’ – Neil Blumenthal
‘There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.’ – David Kirsch
‘I think the most important healthy habit is to rest. Eight hours… every night.’ – Tori Bowie
‘I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.’ – Lauren Mayberry
‘I have had teachers who were brutal. If you look up ‘brutal’ in a dictionary, you will see their names. And I think that it’s under the guise of wanting to change the actor’s habit – wanting to break bad habits and replace them with brand-new ones you can use for the rest of your career.’ – Henry Winkler
‘Everybody has some kind of addiction. It’s about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.’ – Diamond Dallas Page
‘Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I’m fully awake.’ – Amanda Knox
‘I had a habit of watching classic wrestling pretty much on repeat in the locker rooms. With the influx of talent at WWE, with guys like Kevin Owens, he was one of the first people to open my eyes up to the world that is PWG and BOLA.’ – Cody Rhodes
‘My dad had a habit of giving me the Abdullah the Butcher matches as well as the ones with tables and chairs – basically, the matches that went all over the building.’ – Cody Rhodes
‘The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.’ – Hugh Prather
‘I have this habit of not rehearsing a lot; I don’t go on practicing my dialogues, pauses, and actions.’ – Taapsee Pannu
‘I have friends who don’t even know I’m diabetic. I don’t hide it, but it’s the last thing I need to tell someone. I take my insulin with every meal and have kidney drugs twice a day, but that is, like, habit. That’s how I deal with it.’ – Lucy Davis
‘Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.’ – Sal Khan
‘I cannot really recall when I faced stage fear because I started so young. It’s my natural habit. But you know, I can see how I have changed, rather improved as a singer. I never had a formal training but regular practice of singing.’ – Neha Kakkar
‘I don’t like being in the limelight. It is not something extraordinary. It is just my habit.’ – Sonia Gandhi
‘I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.’ – Tommy Morrison
‘I don’t have the habit of asking money from my parents.’ – Catriona Gray
‘Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It’s a club with a culture to try to do everything to help the team.’ – Mauricio Pochettino
‘As a band, we always took a really long time to make records, so unfortunately, we got into that habit of, like, ‘We’ll work on it tomorrow.” – Ad-Rock
‘I have a habit of constantly dreaming and waking up every once in a while in the night to check out my cell phone, and I suddenly saw a message that Sridevi is no more… I thought that either it’s a nightmare or a hoax, and I went back to sleep.’ – Ram Gopal Varma
‘Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.’ – Manisha Koirala
‘I want to get rid of the image that I never turn up on time, because everyone always complains about this habit of mine.’ – Govinda
‘I have got into the habit of gyming regularly.’ – Govinda
‘I think that, in my humble opinion, that the world is divided, and the media has a very good, a very predictable habit of emphasizing whatever will keep people clicking.’ – David Draiman
‘Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.’ – Sanjaya Baru
‘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.’ – Andre Iguodala
‘I’d got into the habit of needing that security, love, and acceptance from a guy to make me happy.’ – Emily Atack
‘One habit that’s important for keeping me mentally healthy is having meaningful conversations with the people around me. That’s a habit that fuels my body and my mind. I also like to go to the beach and write, and I’ve been trying to focus on giving myself time to be alone.’ – Katelyn Ohashi
‘I am not in the habit of putting a ring on my own finger.’ – Aditya Roy Kapur
‘I’ve noticed people in India have developed a habit of hugging around people. I don’t understand it now. I wanted to be hugged when I was young. Now, if someone wants to hug me, I feel only claustrophobic.’ – Ruskin Bond
‘I’m creature of habit.’ – Jesse Itzler
‘My habit is to get real competitive and make racing probably more work than it is enjoyable, and I put a lot of pressure on myself, and I feel like there’s pressure from the outside – it’s probably not real, but it’s something I imagine.’ – Dale Earnhardt Jr.
‘My most annoying habit is laughing all the time. I can’t stop giggling. I do it because I’m nervous.’ – Kelly Brook
‘I don’t know how I have got this habit, but I try to play one match and give it my best – it doesn’t matter which level of cricket I am playing in. It gives me satisfaction that I am not thinking about others, not competing with others.’ – Vijay Shankar
‘I try not to make a habit of spending the whole year losing in the first rounds of events, but tennis is one of those sports where nothing is guaranteed.’ – John Isner
‘We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.’ – Marianne Williamson
‘Despite what many say or think, the PS2 is here to stay. I know that Microsoft dropped the Xbox like a bad habit but PS2 still has more staying power.’ – Cory Barlog
‘Scoring goals is the best feeling in the world. It’s a habit. It’s a drug. Everybody runs away in the playground pretending they’ve scored in front of thousands of people. I do that for real.’ – Glenn Murray
‘I believe the conservatives need to push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted wounds of the Third World.’ – Amy Wax
‘I’m pretty OCD. I like to fine-tune every single detail. I think that’s a habit built maybe from me being OCD.’ – Marcus Mariota
‘I always carry snacks in my bag. It’s a good habit to have now that I am a mom.’ – Dana Bash
‘The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don’t come from a family that lies.’ – Tamilisai Soundararajan
‘It’s too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist’s voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.’ – Greg Iles
‘I have always been extremely health conscious and I have never smoked and don’t encourage the habit of smoking.’ – Tahir Raj Bhasin
‘My worst habit is opening the fridge and thinking: ‘I’d like to eat something.” – Prue Leith
‘I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.’ – Zawe Ashton
‘I have this horrible habit of just pressing online bookmarks that are at the top of my browser like ad infinitum.’ – Ruben Fleischer
‘I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.’ – Adam Conover
‘All the evidence shows that establishing the habit of voting as early as possible is a vital tool in making sure that it’s maintained throughout people’s lives.’ – Emily Thornberry
‘The FBI is not in the habit of leaving loose ends. That’s not what they do.’ – Asha Rangappa
‘Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn’t be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a habit of over-trusting what mathematics or computer scientists tell us to do, without questioning it, too much faith in the magical power of analysis.’ – Hannah Fry
‘In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly handing over power to machines.’ – Hannah Fry
‘Whenever we haven’t got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.’ – Hannah Fry
‘My worst habit is probably awkward laughing. I always awkward laugh, like when you’re talking to someone and no one is saying anything, so I’ll do an awkward laugh. I wish I didn’t do that.’ – Lucas Cruikshank
‘I’m a creature of habit and prefer spending time with the people who matter to me.’ – Soha Ali Khan
‘You can make the most powerful movie ever made, and you hope that whatever resonates gets taken home and survives the night. You also hope that, the next morning, it gives someone pause before they would act on their more base instincts, or out of habit.’ – Christopher Jackson
‘I’ve joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.’ – Christopher Jackson
‘Student TV and radio are great grounding for all presenting. Just to get used to coming up with an idea, making it and getting it out there, I think that’s a really good pattern and a good habit to get into.’ – Alice Levine
‘My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.’ – Kate Garraway
‘Not many know but I did maximum films with Sunil Dutt, who was a thorough gentleman and enthusiastic about everything. He loved making tea for everybody on the sets and that is how I formed habit of having four to five cups of tea in a day.’ – Asha Parekh
‘I knew I needed to workout for my sanity, and I try and make it a daily habit if I can, so I count myself very lucky that I have been able to keep doing that while pregnant.’ – Lara Trump
‘I know it’s a terrible habit, but if I get a pimple, I’ll sit in front of the mirror and pick at it for hours.’ – Camille Rowe
‘When I have some time, I enjoy watching movies, also trying to cultivate habit of reading.’ – Gautam Rode
‘The one thing you don’t want to do is get to a point where losing becomes a habit.’ – Bill Cowher
‘My paid gigs allow me to pay for my documentaries, like a drug habit, I suppose. If I’m lucky enough to be working steady, however, it leaves little time for the documentary hobby.’ – Robert B. Weide
‘You like more the people that you work with, you believe more in them, you share some fantastic moments and that habit of winning, winning, winning… after you win, you don’t want to stop winning.’ – Mikel Arteta
‘Truth be told, exercising is easy once you make it a habit.’ – Chloe Madeley
‘Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It’s a very good habit, extremely essential.’ – Lara Dutta
‘I am disciplined and tend to stick to my workout regime and eating habit and adhere to them strictly.’ – Lara Dutta
‘Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history.’ – David Olusoga
‘Those of us involved in TV have a habit of using the word ‘landmark’ a bit too readily. I have been involved in a couple of television projects that, while we were making them, felt quite landmark-ish, but that in retrospect were just good TV.’ – David Olusoga
‘As a rugby player I got into the habit of tackling without thinking. But in MMA you’ve got to land the right way. You can’t flop. You’ve got to bounce back to your feet. You’ve got to use your sprawl.’ – James Haskell
‘I would always be going from L.A. to Miami to New York, to Russia, St-Tropez. Costs about $50,000 for a domestic flight, $250,000 for overseas. Yeah, that’s an expensive habit.’ – Scott Storch
‘I don’t have many superstitions, but I do have a few things I like to do out of routine and habit before a game.’ – Maya Moore
‘I have a habit of needing cake or chocolate when I get an energy dip around 4 P.M. I wish I could stop.’ – Toyah Willcox
‘Guys don’t get as many physical compliments as women do. Tell him his CrossFit habit is paying off. He’ll work double time to impress you.’ – Matthew Hussey
‘I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.’ – Chunky Pandey
‘We’ve found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.’ – Craig Kielburger
‘Whenever I write anything, I do sing to it, to try and make sure it’s interesting or compelling to sing to. I’ve gotten in the habit of sharing that with other, more charismatic vocalists.’ – Aaron Dessner
‘I find that reading is a super important habit. It’s one of the best ways to get centered, to find a new tool to play with, or to experiment with a new idea.’ – Jay Shetty
‘You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball’s going to bounce to.’ – Oliver Burke
‘Investing is a virtuous habit best started as early as possible.’ – John C. Bogle
‘If you get into the habit of cutting corners, they start to add up.’ – Chris Weidman
‘I have developed a nasty habit of losing to the guy who wins the tournament, and that alone makes you think what you could have achieved.’ – Neil Robertson
‘I have a habit of not going to the doctor till the last minute.’ – Sanya Malhotra
‘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.’ – Ederson
‘I didn’t want to be a hero and get into the mould but the film industry doesn’t work like that. It has a habit of branding you in a specific image to market you easily.’ – Priyanshu Chatterjee
‘I smoke, I want to get rid of the habit.’ – Priyanshu Chatterjee
‘I have a habit of perfecting my shots, so after I give a shot I never crib about it.’ – Sara Khan
‘I’m a creature of habit. I don’t really like change.’ – Lou Williams
‘What’s important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.’ – Frank Vogel
‘I have the habit of always saying thank you to police and guards who watch us.’ – Ruth Westheimer
‘I will make utmost efforts to conduct regulatory reform by tearing down bureaucratic sectionalism, vested interests and notorious habit of following precedents.’ – Yoshihide Suga
‘Try to find a good gym, have a schedule or take a class every day, and make it a habit.’ – Wanderlei Silva
‘I come from a small town, so there we have this habit of talking to rickshawallahs while you are making a trip. So when I moved to Bombay, people found it strange that I do that.’ – Anubhav Sinha
‘When I started my career in television, there was a certain type of stories that were told. Who would have thought that one day I would get a chance to make a film on a story that is based on nothing, just a slap – a habit or practice that has been normalized for so long that if the woman gets upset over it, society says she is ‘over-reacting.” – Anubhav Sinha
‘I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.’ – Gulzar
‘I love sleeping and to inculcate the habit of early rising, my dad forced me to take up a sport. That was the only reason I started playing cricket in the first place. And thereafter it continued.’ – Mithali Raj
‘I think winning can become a bit of a habit.’ – Steve Smith
‘I don’t know what a losing habit is.’ – Michael Carter-Williams
‘I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think I am still hiding.’ – Nigel Hawthorne
‘I do miss talking in the press, I miss meeting journalists at shows and stuff but maybe that’s more out of habit than anything?’ – Peter Molyneux
‘During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front of the mirror.’ – Saswata Chatterjee
‘Even when people are watching a movie in a multiplex, they insult the film by constantly checking their phones and flashing lights. At times, even when the audience is being told to not flash their cameras, they do, and you can’t do anything because it’s a habit for them and they can’t stop. I don’t want that for myself.’ – Saswata Chatterjee
‘I was playing Sultan Razia and had a habit of twitching my wrist when I took a movement.’ – Rohini Hattangadi
‘I guess my training at NSD helped for I had developed a habit of building up my character and getting intense.’ – Rohini Hattangadi
‘I’m hesitant to ascribe too much to luck because I think women have a bad habit of doing that. At the same time, there’s no question that I entered the market at the right moment.’ – Leigh Bardugo
‘Not listening to what my wife tells me is my worst habit. I’m always losing my concentration.’ – Hugh Dennis
‘I’m a man of habit.’ – Jabari Parker
‘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.’ – Andi Dorfman
‘I’m very controlling. It’s my worst habit. I’m also over organized, which means I end up telling my family what I want them to do at certain times, like when to get up, where to put their clothes and when they should have their breakfast.’ – Lesley Sharp
‘I’ve just remained open to growing. What I mean by that is, when you’re an older athlete you can become set in your ways. Each year I try to break a bad habit.’ – Justin Gatlin
‘You soon get into a habit of eating less and that’s the key to shed the extra weight.’ – Shehnaaz Gill
‘I’m definitely a creature of habit.’ – Jack Sock
‘I have to get out of the habit of jumping into relationships with new friends before I really get to know them.’ – Cynthia Bailey
‘Too many women without sufficient interest in the home to occupy their time drift into the habit of three-hour lunches with their friends, followed by fashion shows, matinees and shopping sprees.’ – Van Heflin
‘My worst habit is taking too long in the shower.’ – Raymond Ablack
‘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.’ – Gabe Kapler
‘I am not in the habit of making ideal claims.’ – J. Jayalalithaa
‘America’s habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.’ – Neil Macdonald
‘Unfortunately here in the UK we have got into the habit of being nasty about people in the public eye. It’s all so vicious. In the States they are happy to just say people are great or that they look nice.’ – Dawn O’Porter
‘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.’ – Chris Morocco
‘As a kid, I didn’t have a shower at home, and I was used to taking bucket baths, so I went back to that old habit.’ – Rupali Ganguly
‘The best way of building up a habit for dance is to introduce it early.’ – Arlene Phillips
‘Interrupting people mid-sentence is my worst habit. I cant help myself. I get overexcited in the middle of a conversation and I just butt in.’ – Mary McCartney
‘I had a habit of when I dressed before a game to place my eyeglasses on a locker shelf for safety.’ – George Mikan
‘I’m a creature of habit.’ – Tyler Childers
‘It’s hard to break a habit.’ – Latto
‘Yeah, I always had the habit of translating a lot of Black Sabbath records – that’s kinda like how I first learned English, translating records.’ – Max Cavalera
‘I do not condone smoking while pregnant or smoking – it’s a dirty filthy habit.’ – Kerry Katona
‘I wrote ‘Paracetamol’ between the ages of 15 and 16. With many of my songs, I have this strange habit of spending months fumbling over song structure ideas before suddenly writing all the lyrics in one day, and that’s what happened here.’ – Declan McKenna
‘In some ways, I’m a creature of habit.’ – Shane Lowry
‘You have to practice nose breathing for it to be a natural habit. Sometimes I’ll try to nose-breathe for an entire day.’ – Laird Hamilton
‘Whether we’re trying to cut out processed foods, get fit, or lose one bad habit or another, the biggest obstacle is always mental.’ – Laird Hamilton
‘To do ‘Fox & Friends’ I get up at 3:30 A.M. every morning, including weekends – a hard habit to break.’ – Steve Doocy
‘If you want to feel happier, start by incorporating a small dose of gratitude into your daily habit, whether it is on your commute, during a break, at a meal, or before you go to bed – it all adds up and can be very valuable to your health and well-being. You can also use it to inspire others.’ – Joshua Rosenthal
‘I had destroyed myself as an actor with my drinking habit in the past.’ – Dharmendra
‘Impatience is a bad habit of mine, although I’m working to improve it with lots of therapy. My head moves faster than my body and wants things done immediately.’ – Andi Oliver
‘I’ve got into the habit of studying old ‘Strictly’ routines on YouTube.’ – Joe Sugg
‘I’m very much a creature of habit.’ – Richard Carpenter
‘You might form a bad habit, but it might take a couple weeks, months, years to fix and the really good ones can fix it quickly and stay on top of it.’ – Mac Jones