Habit Quotes - Page 15

• Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

  John Locke

  Needs, Reason, Force

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• Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

  Francis Bacon

  Apes, Ifs

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• Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.

  David Bohm

  Organization, Space, Empathy

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• I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

  Martha Beck

  Optimistic, Anticipation

  "10 Reasons To Feel Good About the Future" by Martha Beck, www.oprah.com. March 2004.

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• Marriage is rather a silly habit.

  John Osborne

  Marriage, Silly

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• Our lives change when our habits change.

  Matthew Kelly

  Life Changing, Our Lives

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.130, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.

  Matthew Fox

  Song, Jobs, Laughter

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• Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.

  John Adams

  Country, Taverns, Dozen

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• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

  John Locke

  Practice, Conquer, Reflecting

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• Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

  Martha Beck

  Needs, Alternatives, Bad Habits

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• Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Inspirational, Self, Lawlessness

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”

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• Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Our Actions, Our Thoughts

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• Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

  Elizabeth George

  Worry, Trust In God, Excellent

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Breaking the Worry Habit...Forever!: God's Plan for Lasting Peace of Mind”, p.20, Harvest House Publishers

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• Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Mind, Body

  Francis Bacon (1859). “Essays, moral, economical and political. With a memoir of the author”, p.6

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• The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

  Paul Goodman

  Travel, Space, Land

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• 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

  Atheist, Blessing, Thinking

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• My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

  Luke Ford

  Space, Isolation, Far Away

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• But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Light

  Jonathan Edwards (1845). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission”, p.18

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• To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Liberty, Meat

  Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.97

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• It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

  Virgil

  Wind, Land, Sky

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• The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Political, Victory, Use

  Source: icmu.nyc.gr

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• It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.

  Jillian Hervey

  Thinking, Roots, Self

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

  Ian Bogost

  Personality, Who We Are, Capacity

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

  Ian Bogost

  Art, Crazy, Kids

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.

  Wayne White

  Artist, Thinking, Boss

  Source: www.mtv.com

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