Daniel Libeskind Quotes

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Habit: A shackle for the free.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

Habit: The great economizer of energy.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

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.

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

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

Discipline is consistency of action.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.

I'll just immediately automatically, without even thinking, check my phone. And it feels like the same little bit of my brain is being - the synapses are lighting up when I do that.

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.