Woodrow Wilson Quotes

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before. It seems horribly dull and pointless-but it really makes a great deal of sense. After all, if you only have to follow the same path every day, you don't need to think at all. Considering how good humans are at any mental process more complicated than chewing, isn't that the best for everybody?

When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Habits change into character.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

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

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

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.

You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.

What I think is remarkable is the force of habit and the fact that while we can have a practice for doing something that has been repetitive and established over many, many years, it doesn't actually mean there's any virtue to doing it that way at all.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

If you keep always doing what you've always done, you get the same results.

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

I find I get fixed in my ways if I don't change. I think I take too many things for granted.

When you've sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.