Habits Quotes

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

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.

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.

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.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

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.

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

Laws are never as effective as habits.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

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.

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 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.