Habit Quotes - Page 37

• It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

  Nick Harkaway

  Philosopher, Language, Consideration

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.380, Random House

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• As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Asking, Firsts

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.156, Penguin UK

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• No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.

  Maureen Johnson

  Pork, Records, Sausage

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.123, Penguin

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• You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

  Zig Ziglar

  Force, Periods, Enthusiastic

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.289, Pelican Publishing

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• My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Worst, Destructive

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.430, Faber & Faber

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• Avery Morgansten? This is becoming a habit.

  J. Lynn

  Becoming

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

  Jodi Picoult

  Warning, Shout Out, Behinds

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Problems postponed have a habit of solving themselves

  John Flanagan

  Problem

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• Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

  Charles Duhigg

  Team, Thinking, Champion

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.61, Random House

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• The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

  Charles Duhigg

  Golden, Golden Rule, Bad Habits

  "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February, 2012.

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• He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Night, Insomnia, Thinking

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• Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

  Rick Yancey

  Personality, Cruelty, Traits

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Atheism, Irreparable

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• All people are the same; only their habits differ.

  Confucius

  People

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• Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

  Rick Yancey

  Sensitive Person, Personality, Used

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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• I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Children, Ambition

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Men, Wonder

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 02, 2011

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• I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if my parents' God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? And not just their beliefs about God and whatever else is out there, about right and wrong, about selfishness?

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Parent, What If

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• Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Motivational, Positive, Work

  Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and Ideas for Doherty Men: Papers, Addresses and Letters”

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• The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Time, Lying, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, May, Action

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• Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Inspirational, Motivation, Character

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• For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.

  Steve Pavlina

  Inspirational, Make Or Break, Ill

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• I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Breathing, Everyday

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• You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Unimportant Things, Routine

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.80, Bantam

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