Habit Pattern Quotes

#1. [M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior.

Henepola Gunaratana

#2. Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

Paddy Ashdown

#4. We are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.

Nikesh Shukla

#6. 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. However,

Charles Duhigg

#7. There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

Anne Hathaway

#8. People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.

Jack Davenport

#9. We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

Sara Zarr

#10. If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order.

Kenneth Schwarz

#11. For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

Louise Hay

#12. Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us.

Jared Bush

#13. A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.

Sharon Weil

#14. Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it.

Kat Lowe

#15. The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

Chip Heath

#16. You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#17. As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Henry Van Dyke

#18. In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Alfred North Whitehead

#19. The human mind delights in finding pattern - so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

Stephen Jay Gould

#20. Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

Denise Austin

#21. I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#22. There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#23. By focusing on one pattern - what is known as a "keystone habit" - Lisa had taught herself how to reprogram the other routines in her life, as well. It's not

Charles Duhigg

#24. God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.

Ellis Peters

#26. If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

Pete Hamill

#27. You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

Alison Lurie