behavioral pattern Quotes

Habit is necessary to give power.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Habit is a form of exercise.

I call myself an addicted organizer.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

I've always had an addictive nature.

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

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 am an addictive personality.

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.

I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

I've got a pretty addictive personality.

Maybe I'm a control freak.

That's why I'm so crazy because my mom is crazy.