Habitually Quotes

#1. When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Robert Irwin

#2. Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

Vance Havner

#3. Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit ...

Stella Gibbons

#4. What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.

Ann Landers

#5. A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

Charles Duhigg

#6. " ... One can learn to focus on 'opportunity' as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively."

David Steindl-Rast

#7. What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. your character is the sum total of your habits. You can't claim to be kind unless you are habitually kind - you show kindness without even thinking about it. You can't claim to have integrity unless it is your habit to always be honest.

Rick Warren

#9. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Elbert Hubbard

#10. Joseph habitually scowled at furniture, expecting it to be impertinent, mischievous, or dusty.

John Steinbeck

#11. In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Fanny Kemble

#12. Scripture and tradition habitually put the joys of heaven into the scale against the sufferings of earth,

C.S. Lewis

#13. You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are

Claude M. Bristol

#14. Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

John Stuart Mill

#15. Mrs Downs, a large sad lady who described herself, to Rupert's delight, as bulky but fragile, now came four mornings a week to clean the house. She was one of those people who habitually looked on the black side of everything with a cheerfulness that bordered upon the macabre.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#16. It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

Herbert Spencer

#17. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Jane Austen

#18. The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

Ray Stannard Baker

#19. The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.

Chuck Klosterman

#20. The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

Ernest Thompson Seton

#21. People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.

Charles Duhigg

#22. The children of God do sin; they sin knowingly; they sin voluntarily; but they do not sin habitually.

Gardiner Spring

#23. Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?

David Limbaugh

#24. No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.

Jack H. Adamson

#25. Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Johannes Brahms

#26. What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Bruce Lee

#27. The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Ezra Pound

#28. Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

George Muller

#29. As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

Stephen Shore

#30. Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

Wallace D. Wattles

#31. For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

John Owen

#32. I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

Brandi Carlile

#33. Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

Bill Parcells

#34. One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of life we habitually carry around with us. But if we want to, there is a practical way to look at that picture and change it. Here is the way of the Treasure Map.

Lisa Hoffman

#35. Once you find a warmup routine that works, repeat it as habitually as possible.

Ted Corbitt

#36. Love as a disposition does not primarily act on abstract principle. Instead it is a way of seeing habitually and responding to the real,
separate, individual needs of each of the people we encounter in our lives every single day.

Roberta C. Bondi

#37. Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

Michel De Montaigne

#38. If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.

Bryant McGill

#39. Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Charles Frazier

#40. Consciously, distinctly, resolutely, habitually, we need to give ourselves, our business, our interests, our families, our affections, into the Spirit's hands, to lead and fashion us as He will. When we work with the current of that Divine will, all is vital, efficient, fruitful.

Frederic Dan Huntington

#41. We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he makes himself habitually aware of words, positively self conscience of them about them, careful to follow what they might say and not to jump to what they might mean.

Jacques Barzun

#42. I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

James Mercer

#43. For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.

Kazimir Malevich

#44. Habitually, as we anxiously flee from the responsibility of our existence as a whole, we place our hope in the particular objects and situations of the world. This, however, fails to provide us with a secure refuge and our initial anxiety asserts itself again.

Stephen Batchelor

#45. you want to write well, write prolifically. If you want to write prolifically, write habitually. If you want to write habitually, learn how to have fun with the process. And if you want to learn how to have fun with the process, pay attention to what's working for you and what isn't.

Anonymous

#46. With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Anthony Storr

#47. Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

James Russell Lowell

#48. It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

Agnes Repplier

#49. Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

Randy Alcorn

#50. Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.

Dan Harris

#51. When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

#52. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually (as the phrase is) king of his company: and in his most habitual company the husband who has a wife inferior to him is always so.

John Stuart Mill

#53. He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#54. Marlys was a sturdy woman in her fifties, white curls clinging to her scalp like vanilla frosting. She wore rimless glasses, a homemade red-checked gingham dress, and low-topped Nikes. Short-nosed and pale, she had a small pink mouth that habitually pursed in thought, or disapproval.

John Sandford

#55. Our lives is almost always a result of those things we habitually think and those things we habitually do. Life is the fruit of discipline, or lack of it. We are our habits. For example, you cannot separate Tiger

Matthew Kelly

#56. In English the word 'peripatetic' means 'one who walks habitually and extensively.

Rebecca Solnit

#57. Quentin was thin and tall, though he habitually hunched his shoulders in a vain attempt to brace himself against whatever blow was coming from the heavens, and which would logically hit the tall people first.

Lev Grossman

#58. Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Jennifer Egan

#59. A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Karl Kraus

#60. When they bring the drama, get silent, don't react ... and watch what happens (not to you, but those who habitually thrive on your 'willing' participation).

T.F. Hodge

#61. Love happily.
Love healthily.
Love harmoniously.
Love habitually.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#62. Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

E.B. White

#63. He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

#64. Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Dickens

#65. If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

Laozi

#66. Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#67. Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.

Henry David Thoreau

#68. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex.

Andrea Dworkin

#69. We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

Deborah Tall

#70. Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.

David Baldacci

#71. Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction

William James

#72. It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater

#73. I'm habitually positive. I try not to use anger as motivation.

Urijah Faber

#74. The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

E.F. Benson

#75. The line between 'normal' and 'neurotic' begins to appear when any activity becomes compulsive - that is, when the person feels pushed to perform the act because it habitually allays his anxiety rather than because of any intrinsic wish to perform the act.

Rollo May

#76. Habits are a way of life and often define our lives. Habitually miserable? You'll see misery in most circumstances. Habitually joyful? You'll see joy in most situations. My goal is to choose habits that empower me and break those that wear me down.

Charles F. Glassman

#77. We become what we habitually contemplate

George Russell

#78. Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Van Wyck Brooks

#79. Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

Charles William Eliot

#80. The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

Laurence J. Peter

#81. Failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ...

Thomas Pynchon

#82. You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.

Karen Maezen Miller

#83. New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.

Muriel Spark

#84. Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Miguel De Unamuno

#85. If someone lies to you habitually, you can't ever trust them. It erodes relationships.

Gilly Macmillan

#86. I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness.

Daniel Klein

#87. You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized.

Shin Kyung-sook

#88. It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God's authority.

K.P. Yohannan

#89. In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#90. One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Marshall McLuhan

#91. If you live your life habitually, just letting day after day flow on by, then you cannot say that you have genuinely lived your life.

Ilchi Lee

#92. Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually pouring out his own feelings and affairs, had never cared for any detail in return, and, if he chanced to know any, had soon forgotten it

George Eliot

#93. He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him.

Rick Moody

#94. Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

Conrad Black

#95. Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

Thomas Ferguson

#96. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Victor Hugo

#97. Andy Clark refers to humans as 'natural-born cyborgs.' What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.

Karl Schroeder

#98. The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.

David F. Houston

#99. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure the comfort.

Humphy Davy

#100. Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old maids and bankrupts.

Gustave Flaubert