Quotes about Habitual

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues. Votes: 4

I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. Votes: 4

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. Votes: 3

Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small. Votes: 3

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth. Votes: 3

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late. Votes: 3

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. Votes: 3

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. Votes: 2

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Votes: 2

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. Votes: 2

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you. Votes: 2

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Votes: 2

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Votes: 2

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. Votes: 2

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. Votes: 2

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Votes: 2

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. Votes: 2

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard. Votes: 2

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Votes: 2

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. Votes: 2

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. Votes: 2

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. Votes: 2

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions. Votes: 2

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward. Votes: 2

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. Votes: 2

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble. Votes: 2

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. Votes: 2

Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer. Votes: 2

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. Votes: 2

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible. Votes: 2

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. Votes: 2

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing. Votes: 0

Excellence is the result of habitual integrity. Votes: 0

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness. Votes: 0

Where I come from, gettin' visual is habitual. Votes: 0

Change your habitual questions and change your destiny! Votes: 0

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. Votes: 0

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve. Votes: 0

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual. Votes: 0

The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative. Votes: 0

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise. Votes: 0

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. Votes: 0

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural. Votes: 0

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny. Votes: 0

The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities. Votes: 0

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. Votes: 0

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis. Votes: 0

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego. Votes: 0

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God. Votes: 0

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. Votes: 0

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious. Votes: 0

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. Votes: 0

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell Votes: 0

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. Votes: 0

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. Votes: 0

My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. Votes: 0

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. Votes: 0

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime. Votes: 0

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. Votes: 0

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. Votes: 0

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean. Votes: 0

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough. Votes: 0

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable. Votes: 0

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. Votes: 0

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us. Votes: 0

We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. Votes: 0

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular. Votes: 0

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them. Votes: 0

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time. Votes: 0

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. Votes: 0

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns. Votes: 0

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence. Votes: 0

Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. Votes: 0

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. Votes: 0

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill Votes: 0

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... Votes: 0

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path. Votes: 0

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. Votes: 0

The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns. Votes: 0

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort. Votes: 0

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. Votes: 0

Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort. Votes: 0

True education is a kind of never ending story "” a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness. Votes: 0

There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters , to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three. Votes: 0

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. Votes: 0

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. Votes: 0

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. Votes: 0

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. Votes: 0

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country. Votes: 0

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind. Votes: 0

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Votes: 0

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species. Votes: 0

Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably. Votes: 0

The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible. Votes: 0

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are. Votes: 0

O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee! Votes: 0

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours. Votes: 0

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions. Votes: 0

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good. Votes: 0

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course. Votes: 0

Its foolishness to claim that one is faithful towards God, when one is habitual of breaking the trust of those who love and respect him. Votes: 0

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise. Votes: 0

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts. Votes: 0

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else. Votes: 0

...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction. Votes: 0

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal. Votes: 0

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Votes: 0

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is. Votes: 0

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice? Votes: 0

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time. Votes: 0

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end. Votes: 0

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural. Votes: 0

But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense. Votes: 0

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual. Votes: 0

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort. Votes: 0

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. Votes: 0

Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters. Votes: 0

I like the word 'affection' because it signifies something habitual, and we are soon to meet to try whether we have mind enough to keep our hearts warm. Votes: 0

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out. Votes: 0

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present. Votes: 0

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night. Votes: 0

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives. Votes: 0

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire. Votes: 0

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change. Votes: 0

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information. Votes: 0

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here. Votes: 0

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic. Votes: 0

The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are. Votes: 0

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known. Votes: 0

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual... Votes: 0

All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's. Votes: 0

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style. Votes: 0

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively. Votes: 0

Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature. Votes: 0

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous. Votes: 0

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography. Votes: 0

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. Votes: 0

Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying. Votes: 0

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me. Votes: 0

Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive. Votes: 0

We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now. Votes: 0

I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy. Votes: 0

What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives. Votes: 0

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes. Votes: 0

The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life. Votes: 0

It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny. Votes: 0

I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed. Votes: 0

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house. Votes: 0

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. Votes: 0