Bad Habit Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Bad Habit Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I have a bad habit of wolfing down things that catch my eye.— Katze Snow
Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.— Chanakya
Do not oversleep and miss the school bus-— Bruce Lansky
you'll be late.
That's a habit teachers generally
don't appreciate.
Never tell your friends at school
that you still wet your bed.
They are sure to tease you,
and you'll wish that you were dead.
Never call your teacher a name
when she's not near you.
Teachers' ears are excellent,
so they can always hear you.
Do not read a textbook when your hands
aren't clean-it's tricky
to separate the pages when the pages
get real sticky.
When you go out for a team
it's always wise to practice.
When you are a substitute,
the bench can feel like cactus.
Do not copy homework from a friend
who is a dummy.
If you do, I'm sure that you
will get a grade that's crummy.
And if your report card's bad,
don't blame it on your buddy.
Kiss up to your parents quick,
or they might make you study.
But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he'd become less of a rebel than he'd ever been. Flying off to assault yet another impossibly well-defended Imperial stronghold. It was getting to be a bad habit.— James S.A. Corey
One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.— Napoleon Hill
I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in your mouth as it is to have a 200-pound man punch me in the face hard or try to kick me in the face. I'm more worried about that, to be honest. I don't have any superstitions. I won world titles with a toothpick. I defended it without a toothpick. It all depends. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's a bad habit. I know I shouldn't do it, but it's fine.— Benson Henderson
I have a bad habit of dropping verbal pellets to get a reaction, like Ursula LeGuin's "A novelist's business is lying" (that particular one got a lot of attention on Facebook), or, "Why is it that Christians hate the word 'sex'?— Chila Woychik
The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.— Mel Gibson
The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.— Randall Jarrell
Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.— John Flanagan
We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads.— John Green
So too often what passes for literary criticism is "I couldn't picture that guy", or "I liked that part", or "this part shouldn't have happened." That is, we've left language so far behind that sometimes we judge quality solely based on a story's actions.
So we can appreciate a novel that constructs its conflicts primarily through plot - the layered ambiguity of a fatal car accident caused by a vehicle owned by Gatsby but driven by someone else, for instance. But in this image-drenched world, sometimes we struggle to appreciate and celebrate books where the quality arises not exclusively from plot but also from the language itself.
Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could order men to smash down doors and drag people off the dungeons without trial, but too much of that sort of thing lacked style and anyway was bad for business, habit-forming and very, very dangerous for your health. A thinking tyrant, it seemed to Vetinari, had a much harder job than a ruler raised to power by some idiot vote-yourself-rich system like democracy. At least they could tell the people he was their fault.— Terry Pratchett
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.— Rob Brezsny
When things were bad, time had a habit of taking its time to pass, making sure you experienced every painful moment. When things were good and contentment abundant, time moved like the wind, hurrying precious moments along and forcing things that normally require nurturing to grow and forge quickly.— Bernice L. McFadden
I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.— Charles Bukowski
I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.— Joan Baez
You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.— Carol Leifer
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.— George E.P. Box
Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.— Jack Osbourne
Common sense was exactly what kingship, almost by definition, lacked: when the king's orders were executed no one dared to tell him honestly how they had turned out. With the absolute powers bestowed by kingship came an arrogance, a ruthlessness, an inflexibility, a habit of compulsion, an unwillingness to listen to reason, that no small community would have endured from any of its members-though the aggressive and humanly disagreeable qualities that make for such ambitious leadership might be found anywhere-as Margaret Mead discovered among the Mundugumor, whose leaders were known to the community as "really bad men," aggressive, gluttonous for power and prestige.— Lewis Mumford
Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I am calling progress traps. A small village on good land beside a river is a good idea; but when the village grows into a city and paves over the good land, it becomes a bad idea. While prevention might have been easy, a cure may be impossible: a city isn't easily moved. This human inability to foresee— Ronald Wright
or to watch out for
long-range consequences may be inherent to our kind, shaped by the millions of years when we lived from hand to mouth by hunting and gathering. It may also be little more than a mix of inertia, greed, and foolishness encouraged by the shape of the social pyramid. The concentration of power at the top of large-scale societies gives the elite a vested interest in the status quo; they continue to prosper in darkening times long after the environment and general populace begin to suffer. (109)
Have you ever tried to quit a bad habit, one that has come to define you? To cease using a substance--any substance--that you not only need but enjoy? To stop yourself from lighting up that cigarette? It's going to kill you, but hey, you're going to die someday anyway, why not die happy, why not die buzzed, why not die satisfied? Why not die sooner, with fewer regrets, than later?— Ellen Hopkins
It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.— Wes Montgomery
The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.— Will Rogers
Of offering more than what I can deliver,— Ken Kesey
I have a bad habit, it is true.
But I have to offer more than I can deliver,
To be able to deliver what I do.
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.— Leo Aikman
You really have a bad habit of falling," he remarked.— Aishabella Sheikh
Falling for you, Amarissa thought.
I really need to break him of the bad language habit he's developing at a rapid pace, but who am I to talk? I curse all the fucking time.— Monica Murphy
One mustn't be so cocksure, Joker says. Bad habit, he repeats.— Jostein Gaarder
That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.— Mary Russell Mitford
Transcending divisiveness is one of the dreams of centrists, as if disagreement were a bad habit rather than fundamental to politics.— Doug Henwood
You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.— Champ Bailey
A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make— Boonaa Mohammed
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.— William James
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
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.— Denis Diderot
This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker— Elbert Hubbard
If a bad habit is a learned behavior, then what we've learned needs to be burned in/thru the Refiner's Fire! el— Evinda Lepins
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.— Andre Maurois
I can't prevent you from becoming what you want, but I refuse to nurture a bad habit.— Joan Ambu
Nine times out of ten, failure is resorting to Plan B when Plan A gets too risky, too costly, or too difficult. That's why most people are living their Plan B. They didn't burn the ships. Plan A people don't have a Plan B...— Mark Batterson
There are moments in life when we need to burn the ships to our past. We do so by making a defining decision that will eliminate the possibility of sailing back to the old world we left behind. You burn the ships named Past Failure and Past Success. You burn the ship named Bad Habit. You burn the ship named Regret. You burn the ship named Guilt. You burn the ship named My Old Way of Life.
Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad.— Carson McCullers
When faced with problems, people often fall into the habit of accepting the "either/or" options presented to them as solutions. Often, other options are available that may not yet have been considered. Focusing too narrowly on the information that is directly available can cause people to make bad decisions.— Anonymous
It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.— Douglas Preston
The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.— Bui Diem
Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.— Brian Tracy
You see, when someone says "it's impossible,' I have this very bad habit, I can't help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.— Douglas Preston
By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight ... Second: Circumspection ... Third: Caution ... And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources— Benjamin Franklin
I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.— Eva Mendes
The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.— Jack Nicholson
What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.— John Bartholomew Gough
Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.— Melissa Bank
If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.— Robin Hobb
By the same rule, though, if we learn to create new neurological routines that overpower those behaviors - if we take control of the habit loop - we can force those bad tendencies into the background,— Charles Duhigg
I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.— Ashleigh Brilliant
People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.— Paul Gibbons
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.— Mignon McLaughlin
He's just a guy who got caught up in a bad habit and made a few mistakes at work." "He's— Jeremy Robert Johnson
We are in the habit of rating our lives in real time - a sad day, a nice visit, a terrible commute, a good meditation - qualifying and quantifying everything. There are actually neither unequivocally good nor bad events, things, or people - only the wanted and the unwanted - and everything is subjective. This is strong medicine; think about it. It's a matter of perspective.— Lama Surya Das
What God does in the tiny corners of our day-to-day lives is stunning and gorgeous and headline-making, but we have a bad habit of saving the headlines for the grotesque and scary.— Shauna Niequist
We live in an era of social science, and have become accustomed to understanding the social world in terms of "forces," "pressures," "processes," and "developments." It is easy to forget that those "forces" are statistical summaries of the deeds of millions of men and women who act on their beliefs in pursuit of their desires. The habit of submerging the individual into abstractions can lead not only to bad science (it's not as if the "social forces" obeyed Newton's laws) but to dehumanization.— Steven Pinker
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.— Jane Smiley
Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.— Conor Oberst
Noooooo!Noooooo! Noooooooo!" I rubbed my hand against the sheet till the skin turned red and sore.But all the rubbing and scrubbing wouldn't make it go away. It was permanent, that tattoo. The tattoo that said 'Done With Men'. And it hurt! What on earth was I thinking? My habit of thinking out loud was bad enough, but tattooing my thoughts onto myself? This wasn't happening to me.— Shuchi Singh Kalra
married life is merely a habit, a bad habit.— Oscar Wilde
I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the example of our actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves. [in response to Rousseau's "The Social Contract"]— Voltaire
And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being— Jonathan Tropper
angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning
yourself without thinking about it.
If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don't give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)— Swami Satchidananda
No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.— Thomas B. Macaulay
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.— Napoleon Hill
Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.— Oscar Wilde
My father has the irritating habit of saying the same thing whenever something bad happens. "This, too, shall pass," he says. What annoys me is that he's always right about it. What annoys me even more is that he always reminds me later when it does pass, as a smug "I told you so."— Neal Shusterman
He doesn't say it to me anymore because Mom told him it was trite. Maybe it is, but I find that I say it to myself now. No matter how bad I'm feeling, I make myself say it, even if I'm not ready to believe it. This, too, shall pass. It's amazing how little things like that can make a big difference.
Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.— Martha Beck
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.— Pablo Picasso
Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it." - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer— Michelle Hodkin
Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it not for his dear habit of coming here every day and finding his old friends on these shelves.— Jules Verne
There just isn't enough cock in this world to be caught suckin' and be called anything but a slut for life. The cynic in me would call it a bad habit, but that'd make me a whore in denial and if there's one thing I am, it's an honest bitch. Then again, you don't get famous for being daddy's little angel, but you can easily fall into the Infamy Bracket by preaching a made-up Bible quote now and again. They say I'm shallow, but I've made a living out off diving off the deep end.— Dave Matthes
It was a bad habit of hers ... looking for safety in places where there wasn't any.— Lisa Kleypas
All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life's experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Now we can choose the sort of thoughts that we entertain. It will be a little difficult to break a bad habit of thought, but it can be done. We can choose how we shall think - in point of fact, we always do choose - and therefore our lives are just the result of the kind of thoughts we have— Emmet Fox
The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.— James Cash Penney
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication ... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths ... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine ... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.— Seneca The Younger
I don't think I'm an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and read and read,— Joshua Foer
and we forget and forget and forget. So why do we bother? Michel de Montaigne expressed the dilemma of extensive reading in the
sixteenth century: "I leaf through books, I do not study them," he wrote. "What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
It is only the material from which my judgment has profited, and the thoughts and ideas with which it has become imbued;
the author, the place, the words, and other circumstances, I immediately forget." He goes on to explain how "to compensate a
little for the treachery and weakness of my memory," he adopted the habit of writing in the back of every book a short critical
judgment, so as to have at least some general idea of what the tome was about and what he thought of it.
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.— Isabel Colegate
The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.— Denis Waitley
Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.— Rob Brezsny
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.— John Webster
For although she had been, and still was, very much admired, she had got into the way of preferring unsatisfactory love affairs to any others, so that it was becoming almost a bad habit.— Barbara Pym
Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.— Joyce Meyer
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.— Tim McCarver
Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.— Joel Osteen
Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit— Abraham Maslow
We have a high ceiling. We're still young. We're still learning coach's system and we're still learning how to play hard every night. I think that's been a bad habit of ours the last few years. It's a habit that's hard to shake, too. I think if we keep pushing, we'll be alright this season.— Andrew Bogut
In my ten years of teaching I've noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher variety, are just weird as shit.— P.C. Cast
Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.— Douglas Merrill
It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.— Evelyn E. Smith
I'm starting to think that you have a really bad habit of trying to save me."— Daniele Lanzarotta
She turns shy and looks down. "You are worth saving.
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad, just when you especially want them to be good!— L.M. Montgomery
He started Number the Stars before we were even out of the store. "The only problem is, I already know how it ends," he said. "Because once when I looked at it back at the library, I found out."— Rebecca Makkai
"I do that too," I said. "It's a bad habit."
"But I never mean to." He was walking, talking, and reading all at the same time. "It's that I always have to look back and see how many pages there are, so I know when I'll be exactly halfway through, but then when I see the last page it's like my eyes suck up all the words.
But Father had once told her that the trouble with passing up opportunities was that it was habit-forming. If you told yourself you were waiting for a better opportunity next time, why, next time you'd probably tell yourself the same thing. Father had said that most people spent their whole lives waiting for an opportunity that was good enough, and then they died. Father had said that while seizing opportunities would mean that all sorts of things went wrong, it wasn't nearly as bad as being a hopeless lump. Father had said that after she got into the habit of seizing opportunities, then it was time to start being picky about them.— Eliezer Yudkowsky
