457 Quotes About Habit

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

Old habits will keep you stuck as they won't open doors to new opportunities.

FRIENDSHIP IS THE BEST HABIT

Comparisons are always welcomed when drawn in favor.

The habit of comparing leads to the habit of criticism, which soon leads to self-condemnation, and fills your life with pain and misery.

A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn.

There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. The least slackening of vigilance and the thing has gripped him.