The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.
Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.
Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.
So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.
One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.
People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
Most of the time I'm really not aware of what I am doing. I'm just so locked into the moment.
People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.
As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.
How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.
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.
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
Good or bad, habits always deliver results.
No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.
Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.
Habits are more powerful than fears.
I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
