Derek Sivers Quotes

The way we do one thing is the way we do everything.

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Character is long-standing habit.

What you are will show in what you do.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

Pursuits become habits.

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

Character is inured habit.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Habits change into character.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.