#habits

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #habits




As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.


Major Taylor


#been #careers #clean #clean living #exertion

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.


Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


#enough #fixed #formation #grateful #grew

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.


Sven Birkerts


#reading-habits #age

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.


Therese Anne Fowler


#rules #change

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.


Seth Godin


#change

It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.


Charles Duhigg


#business

Weight loss is a sum of all of your habits - not individual ones.


Helen M. Ryan


#healthy-habits #new-habits #weight-loss #weightloss #change

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.


Kevin Brockmeier


#control #habits #change

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.


Jean Cocteau


#characteristics #completely #cut #dream #friends

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.


David Eddings


#humor #problem-solving #equality