Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.
I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure'- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I`m going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.
Convention is another name for the habits of society.
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.