I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff. — Jason Schwartzman
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. — Errol Flynn
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
7 Habits Quotes
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. — Stephen Covey
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen Covey
If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.
Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw — Stephen Covey
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. — Stephen Covey
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it. — Stephen Covey
True love has a habit of coming back.
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. — Stephen Covey
Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make — Stephen Covey
The way we see the problem is the problem. — Stephen Covey
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. — Stephen Covey
Habits Of Mind Quotes
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
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity. — Henepola Gunaratana
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein
Habits change into character.
Avoid the rabbit holes that can kind of lead to us not being our best selves and not feeling great… — Christina Koch
Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily. — Bruce Lee
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. — Theodore Zeldin
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. — Bertrand Russell
We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give up their bad habits, or to do anything other than to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. — R. A. Torrey
You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness of mind, and transform habit and routine into vibrant times of worship. — Jack W. Hayford
Work Habits Quotes
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill
A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. — Akira Toriyama
Finishing our work is a good habit to develop. It boosts confidence. Despite our insecurities, the more times we can bring ourselves to release our work, the less weight insecurity has. — Rick Rubin
No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass.
I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection. — Rick Rubin
I don't like music that much... I put on the TV. But I often play things like fast-tempo disco or Queen. — Akira Toriyama
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off. — Mary Lou Retton
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. — Doug Henning
I would often draw in my sleep. That alone made for twice the work... — Akira Toriyama
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. — Sarah T. Bolton
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. — Aristotle
New Habits Quotes
Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship. — Nachman of Breslov
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
To change one's life:
a. Start immediately
b. B. Do it flamboyantly
c. No exceptions
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted. — William James
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place. — Susan L. Taylor
When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do. — James Clear
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. — James Clear
It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are. — James Clear
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. — James Clear
People who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habits are more likely to follow through. — James Clear
Old Habits Quotes
Getting overly caught up in such minute details leads to burnout. And burnout always leads back to old habits. The name of the game is sustainability. And simply put, if it's too complicated, it's not sustainable. And if it's not sustainable, what's the point? — Rich Roll
It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits. — Tom Waits
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel — Victor Hugo
Your habits are modern-day solutions to ancient desires. New versions of old vices. — James Clear
Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change. — Therese Anne Fowler
Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love. — Rollo May
Falling is scary but good practice for life. We must fall. In love. Out of love. Into new experiences. Out of old habits. Deeper and further into ourselves. We must fall, life is falling over forward. The only choice we have is how we let go. — Troian Bellisario
Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes. — Darren Hardy
Daily Habits Quotes
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. — John C. Maxwell
At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed. — Maxine Greene
Success is the product of daily habits - not once in a lifetime transformation. — James Clear
A slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination. — James Clear
Many of our daily habits are imitations of people we admire. — James Clear
People will go to great lengths to fix their gut health, but often overlook the detrimental impact of their daily mouthwash habit. — Mark Burhenne
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits. — Rabindranath Tagore
Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life. — Delbert L. Stapley
You don’t create your future. You create your daily habits, and they create your future. — Randy Gage
Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit — Bruce Lee
The fix is easy: breathe less. But that’s harder than it sounds. We’ve become conditioned to breathe too much, just as we’ve been conditioned to eat too much. With some effort and training, however, breathing less can become an unconscious habit. — James Nestor
Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity. — Anthony Giddens
Don’t eat anything within three to four hours of bedtime. — Valter Longo
Nutrition is not just about what we eat, it’s about how we eat, when we eat, and how our bodies process the food. — Rhonda Patrick
Men and women aged forty-five to seventy-nine who are physically active, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, do not smoke, and consume alcohol moderately have on average one-fourth the risk of death during a given year than people with unhealthy habits. — Daniel Lieberman
I feel amazing. This is all the result of just changing my eating habits. — Joe Gatto
For the first time, our eating habits are killing more Americans than our smoking habits. — Max Lugavere
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating. — Niyi Osundare
I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it. — Akira Toriyama
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew. — Louis Aragon
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. — A.C. Grayling
To vary your inspiration, consider varying your inputs. Turn the sound off to watch a film, listen to the same song on repeat, read only the first word of each sentence in a short story, arrange stones by size or color, learn to lucid dream. Break habits. Look for differences. Notice connections. — Rick Rubin
In spite of being so absorbed in comics when I was in primary school, for whatever reason, I stopped reading them that much once I started junior high. — Akira Toriyama
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. — Edwin Paxton Hood
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
Sitting. Reading. Thinking. Buffett credits many of his successful decisions to his incredible reading habit. — Gautam Baid
Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. — Anna Quindlen
Good Habits Quotes
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits? — Shel Silverstein
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life. — Leo Tolstoy
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days. — Charlotte Mason
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future. — James Clear
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
It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones become strikingly apparent. — James Clear
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action. — James Clear
Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you. — Eric Thomas
Healthy Habits Quotes
Transformations don't come from cleanses, eliminations or detox teas. They come from healthy habits. — Will Bulsiewicz
The best diet is one you don't realise you're following. — Chris Williamson
Healthy habits are hard to form but easy to live with, whereas unhealthy habits are easy to form but hard to live with. — Eric Berg
Food is not reward... you do not 'earn.' Training should not be punishment. Both should be enjoyable. If not, you have an unhealthy mindset. — Layne Norton
If you can control what you eat, you can control all other aspects of your life. — Joe Rogan
No matter where I am in the world or what's on my schedule, I begin each day by reading an inspirational book and then meditating and praying. I adopted this healthy habit many years ago to ensure that my first thoughts of the day were positive. — Doreen Virtue
Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice. — Wayne Dyer
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. — Richard Carmona
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits. — Dan Buettner
Make It A Habit Quotes
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
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit, and the only bit of material I ever wore was the strip of sari cloth around my hips, which was so useful for making into a bag to collect coconuts on walks. — Lucy Irvine
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. — Gordon Parks
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. — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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
The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do. — James Clear
In practice, it doesn't really matter how long it takes for a habit to become automatic. What matters is that you take the actions you need to take to make progress. — James Clear
While it is not possible to transform every habit into a supernormal stimulus, we can make any habit more enticing. — James Clear
We need to make our habits attractive because it is the expectation of a rewarding experience that motivates us to act in the first place. — James Clear
One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us. — Michio Kaku
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Lao Tzu
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
I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth. — Steven Biko
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior. — John B. Watson
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. — Malcolm X
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness. — Carlos Castaneda
What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. — Haruki Murakami
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