quotations about habit
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
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"Marina Abramovic Makes Sundance Shut Up", Interview Magazine
Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.
MARCEL PROUST
The Guermantes Way
Habit, like a fog, tends to palliate things and beings. Little by little it obscures the features of a face and rubs down deformities; if you live with a humpback day in and day out, after a time he loses his hump.
OCTAVE MIRBEAU
The Diary of a Chambermaid
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
VINCE LOMBARDI