Habitual Responses Quotes

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

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.