Habit Forming Quotes

#1. The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty."
Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You do not cut the dosage down. You kick it if you can; you stop the dose entirely. But the convulsions that follow may wreck the body entirely.

Frederik Pohl

#2. Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions.

Nir Eyal

#3. I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

Marcel Duchamp

#4. Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude.

Gregory Maguire

#5. For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

Mordecai Richler

#6. The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.

W. H. Auden

#7. A company can begin to determine its product's habit-forming potential by plotting two factors: frequency (how often the behavior occurs) and perceived utility (how useful and rewarding the behavior is in the user's mind over alternative solutions).

Nir Eyal

#8. Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves.

Nir Eyal

#9. Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years

Tallulah Bankhead

#10. The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.

Nir Eyal

#11. While determination builds character, quitting is habit forming.

Frank Sonnenberg

#12. You won't be liberated from deformation by new information. God doesn't deliver us from the deformative habit-forming power of tactile rival liturgies by merely giving us a book. Instead,

James K.A. Smith

#13. For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

Louis Kronenberger

#14. I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.

Stan Lee

#15. Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Wilt Chamberlain

#16. There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Don Marquis

#17. Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch.

Nir Eyal

#18. Books are a habit-forming drug.

Agatha Christie

#19. Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

John Brunner

#20. No matter what happens - never give up a hole ... In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

Sam Snead

#21. I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

Mick Jagger

#22. For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.

William S. Burroughs

#23. The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.

Norman Rockwell

#24. Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming"; "Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em

Puggy Pearson

#25. I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

W.C. Fields

#26. Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

Marcel Duchamp

#27. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

Lucian Freud

#28. Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.

Heinz Hopf

#29. A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick

Scott Adams

#30. Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.

Margaret Meagher

#31. I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

Warren Buffett

#32. Listen up, then. Evil is a choice. It is a choice. Doing the wicked thing is the easy way out, and it is habit forming. I've done it.

Miles Cameron

#33. I'm not saying it isn't habit forming, but it's much milder than tobacco, alcohol, or cocaine. Law enforcement says it's addictive, but that's ridiculous. If you believe that, then pachinko is far more dangerous.

Haruki Murakami

#34. Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Carolyn Wells

#35. Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

Robert Benchley

#36. Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.

Mortimer J. Adler

#37. Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

J.C. Ryle

#38. Habits grow like dragons if you feed them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#39. This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.

Anna White

#40. Forming culture is not a one-time event.

Matt Chandler

#41. The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

Karl Pearson

#42. The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in forming the habit of prioritizing your time so that you are accomplishing your most important goals in an efficient manner.

John C. Maxwell