Marilyn French Quotes

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Habit: The great economizer of energy.

Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Pursuits become habits.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

You've got the same rhythm every day just to keep you going. So once that rhythm is broken, it's kind of hard to get back with it when you got a lot of things going on.

I try to just focus in on being in the same routine every single day.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.