863 Quotes About Habits

Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.

Habits aren’t destiny. Habits can be ignored, changed, or replaced. But the reason the discovery of the habit loop is so important is that it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit—unless you find new routines—the pattern will unfold automatically.

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

His mom calls him Berger?

The habits of our lives make us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

I was not afraid to ask completely stupid questions, and I have kept this habit until now.

Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work.

I should pursue only those habits that would make me feel freer and stronger.