She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
Ann BrasharesEverything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.
Julien SmithTags: natural actions normal habits behavior norms
You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.
Julien SmithTags: optimism confidence positive actions feelings choices choosing habits flinch
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel ProustTags: habits behavior set-ways
Silk laughed. "You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we find least attractive in our Cherek cousins."
"And we find this compulsion to make clever remarks which seems to overwhelm our Drasnian brothers now and then almost equally unattractive," Barak told him coolly.
Tags: humor problem-solving habits
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.
Erin MorgensternTags: truth stories change reasons habits the-night-circus
Habits form and habits grow,
Then some time later, habits go.
Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.
John TravoltaTags: vices habits rituals personal-style
Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.
T. Colin CampbellTags: health americans nutrition habits
Crash diets don't work.
They don't work for losing weight, they don't work for making sales quota and they don't work for getting and keeping a job.
The reason they don't work has nothing to do with what's on the list of things to be done (or consumed). No, the reason they don't work is that they don't change habits, and habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
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