“Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.” MindEndsSeemsWould BeLastsMovingSufferingRoomsWeekHabitDevicesTemporaryQuartersPowerless Book:Swann's Way Source: Swann's Way
“Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!” GivingTwoTodayThreeNextBitsWeekAdviceHabitDrugDearCrowdsFollowingFinding YourselfDozenNext WeekDear FriendFollowing The CrowdThree Friends Book:The Rest of My Life Source: The Rest of My Life
“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.” ShouldWritingYearsFirstsStillsSometimesMatterResponsibilityWeekMaterialsBrokenMonthsHabitCircumstancesCostWeightMarkLifetimeResponsePatternsTake MeAccumulationUnsaidDiscontinuity Book:Silences Source: Silences
“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!” WritingInspirationAsksHeavenHoursWeekFrontsMonthsHabitShapesNotionMoodStaringLapses Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.” StatesSeemsWould BeSpiritSufferingWeekHabitResourcesTemporarySkillful Author:Marcel Proust
“I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.” IfsFeelsMayChristianSpiritualWeekDutyHairHabitQuietCarefulConversionDrySpiritual LifeGroomingQuiet TimePersonal Grooming Book:WOMAN TO WOMAN Source: WOMAN TO WOMAN
“It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.” PeopleIfsThinkingCasesWeekSpecialChangedAmountHabitOne DayMeatFarmsConvenientSmall AmountsFestiveSpecial Things Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody says, 'I don't have the time.' It's up to you to say, 'I do have the time.' For me, beginning to run when I was a student was an ideal situation. However, I've also trained as much as 130 miles per week during periods when I worked a full-time job. It ultimately becomes second nature. It becomes a habit, a routine part of your daily life” RunningJobsDifficultSituationWeekStyleStudentsHabitPeriodsCommitmentIdealsMilesDaily LifeRoutineInitialsUp To YouLife StyleFull Time Jobs Author:Bill Rodgers
“I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.” FeelsStillsThreeWeekHabitLowsBallsTeenagerEstatesThree TimesRemorseInsultingInsidiousAuctionsHeirlooms Author:Dennis Miller
“I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly. So, I had to make some money somewhere. I was everything from a stock worker in an Alexander's department store to flower delivery person to a messenger to a grocery clerk to a gas station attendant. I even worked in Macy's dusting off fur coats for two weeks.” PersonsTwoWantedJobsActorsWeekFlowerHabitWorkersStoresDepartmentGasStationsCoatsTwo WeeksGroceriesFurDeliveryBad HabitsMessengersClerksGas StationsDepartment StoresFur CoatsMacy's Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
“I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the second sentence, and I might be several weeks on the first page instead of writing a draft and trying to figure it out from there.” WritingTryingFirstsMightWeekFiguresHabitPagesSentencesBad Habits Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“We're our kids' first and best role models. So the first question is, what are you as a mom or a dad doing every day, or every week, to start getting into the good habits?” FirstsKidsRolesWeekMomHabitDadModelsRole ModelsGood Habits Author:Michelle Obama
“In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?” MenMomentsWeekFeetCoupleHabitMen And WomenChinaIntimacyAmazedSwedishRecycled Author:Miranda July