With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed.
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.
I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
Turn your habit into a conscious decision.
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.
I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.
We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.
[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.
Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
We are mere bundles of habits.
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.
Habit is stronger than desire.
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, were free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.