Samuel Beckett Quotes

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

After a while, the fear became a habit, too.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

You know what I think you get scared of more - especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands for so long - you start to associate certain behavior with the music. It's like people associate having a cigarette with having a cup of coffee, or lunch.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize—they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

Everybody's got a habit.

Your habits determine your outcomes.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.