Zitat des Tages über Gewohnheit / Habit:
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
I make a habit of asking myself, 'Is there purpose to this meeting or conversation? Do I want to build a relationship with this person or company? Is there purpose behind this meeting that aligns with my life and business strategy?' If the answer is 'No,' then I pass every time.
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.
Changing a habit or routine doesn't happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time and may take easing into the change to make it work for you. Waking up earlier is no exception.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?
The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie 'Farrell for the People.' I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
