Habits Quotes

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.