[T]he habit of scientific analysis. . . exhausts the material offered to it.
Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.
Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.
But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward--craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment--will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come.
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.
It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.
Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.
I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
Lookin' back is a bad habit.
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.
Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.
Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.
I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.
I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
95% of everything you do is the result of habit.