Habits Quotes

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.

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.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

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.

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.

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

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.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

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.

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

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