Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.

We got in that habit of being too protective and not wanting to give something up. When you think like that, you get yourself into that, as they say in football terminology, ‘prevent defense.’ You...

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When someone puts an end to something, it doesn’t mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be...

Every negative complex of emotion conceals a conflict, a problem or dilemma made up of contradictory or opposing motives or desires. Self-observation must recover these emotional seeds of the dramatization of life if real control...

That was something that just came from a bad habit. It was no mechanical reason that made me do it. Just a bad habit. It made me inconsistent. The ball would be high or low.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

This is absolute—you were born wholly equipped with every prerequisite to rock the world. Spiritual deficits results in a habit to misidentify with a fragmented self, a fragmented story and thusly, a fragmented identity. We...

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. […] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he...

On the other hand, old people who have lived most of their lives are set in their habits and therefore have far more difficulty adapting themselves to a new marriage than young people.

No matter how much you love them or whatever you do they will continue to be selfish as selfishness is their hidden attire☺ –

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit – the habit of nine-tenths of the world – of believing that all was right...

Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.

I’m a pedophile. You know that, … I’m gonna look. He was feeding my habit. … It’s like crack. After you give them that one rock, you know he’s gonna come back. He’s hooked.

When we are honorable in the small things each day, we eventually become honorable in all things in life.

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

Thoughts close more doors then they open. This causes limitation. Action opens more doors then it closes. This results in liberation. I suggest spending less time on trying to change thoughts and more time on...

The most basic way to get someone’s attention is this: Break a pattern.

Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we...

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn’t concerns anyone.

Comparisons are always welcomed when drawn in favor.

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.

Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably.

It is slow, gradual pressure that is the formula for both genius and earthquakes. Life tells us our secrets in these cracks, the way events conspire with each other in hidden grottos. This movement is...

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one’s opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war –so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points...

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don’t internalize the habit of giving excuses.

He has a billionaire’s spending habit, but a millionaire’s budget.

The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think – and to feel – such melancholy things.

Nothing seems crazy when you’re used to it.

By the practice of being honorable in small things each day, one eventually becomes honorable in all things every day!!!

We stay the same as we’ve always been, keeping to the path we’ve walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only...

As a society we have a habit of saying a little drug experimentation is OK for young people when they venture off onto their own. In actuality the experimentation affects everyone and often times leads...

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

I don’t think it’s time yet. We need to convert a lot more people to the habit of buying music online. I don’t think a way to convert more people is to raise the price.

Those who pretend as if they don’t love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At...

Develop the inner vision and the habit of listening to the inner Voice; and you are assured of unshakable Peace and infinite Joy.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you’ll ever be published or paid or even that you’ll be able to finish the particular work you’ve begun. It...

Every habit he’s ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.

Forrest Gander: “Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green...