Top 1200 Work Habits Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When most individuals or most companies are talking about trying to create healthy habits, the key is to identify which habit or habits seem most important.

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

So, I went to Harvard and I got exposed to American work habits. I didn't even realise for a while that I was behind. I kind of had the illusion that I was understanding things. But people worked so hard and the thing I learnt first in America was that people work incredibly hard.

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

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

While ignoring your bad habits may help you feel good initially, that avoidance will eventually catch up to you. When you don't address the unproductive and unhealthy things you're doing alongside your good habits, you'll stagnate.

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

If you want to become physically stronger, you'll need healthy habits - like going to the gym. You'll also have to give up unhealthy habits - like eating junk food. Building mental strength requires healthy habits - like practicing gratitude - while also giving up unhealthy behavior, like giving up after the first failure.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

Bad habits are easy to slip into and good habits are very easy to build. Don't allow yourself to do something that can destroy you.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.

Workers develop routines when they do the same job for a while. They lose their edge, falling into habits not just in what they do but in how they think. Habits turn into routines. Routines into ruts.

I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.

A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime.

The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.

You work hard and you drill daily all the habits that you need to win at basketball and you're going to create a winning culture.

Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows awayOf course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being.

Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined in the mind and body, hurts that act through barely conscious habits and reactions. This work is a part of that heroic labor, a cousin to sitting meditation, to singing bowls and chanting monks.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .

Sometimes if you kick too much, it can work in a negative direction. If you get tired or sore, you might develop some bad habits.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.