Habit Persistence Quotes

You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Family habits die hard.

My wife hates the beard. When we dated, I would grow it out during duck season. She said she could handle anything for three months - but now I have it all the time.

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. 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.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Trying to keep up is the ultimate act of uncoolness. And so I still retrieve not one but two daily newspapers from the driveway.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

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.

Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

The funny thing about the golf swing is that you try to alter it and end up with the same faults as you've had all your life.