Samuel Beckett Quotes

Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

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?

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.

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

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Sometimes it doesn't take much to slip back into bad habits.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Humans are animals of habit.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.