Habit Quotes

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

Time, Money, Teacher

I am not a creature of habit.
Tony Visconti

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

Hard, Find, Break

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

Time, Enjoy, Try

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

Work, Smart, School

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

Remember, Lives, Kid

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
Morley Safer

Sunday, Night, Put

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

Time, May, Floor

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.
Jack Osbourne

Bad, Rather, Kelly

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Alistair Cooke

Men, Fellow, Fulfilling

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

Writing, Made, Find

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

Saying, Night, Made

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
Nana Mouskouri

Time, Attention, Everybody

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

Love, God, Alone

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

Times, Couple, Theater

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

Experience, Same, Able

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

Human, Actor, Values

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

Self, Person, Adversity

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

Love, History, Book

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
Claire McCaskill

Bad, Short, Attention

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

Time, Find, Rather

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

Evening, Principles, Advocate

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
Julianna Baggott

Good, Writing, Put

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

Work, Morning, Made

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

Yourself, Hard, Find

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
Delia Smith

Getting, Promise, Number

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

Cannot, Lose, Realize

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ernest Dimnet

Education, Thinking, Creation

It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.
Denene Millner

Good, Sleep, Ignore

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
Henri de Lubac

Power, Destroy, Waste

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