Susan Griffin Quotes

Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

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.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

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.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

There are a lot of tactical decisions that, if I could have done them over, I would have.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

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?

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.