Top 1200 Bad Habits Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.

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

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?

I'm really bad at tests of any kind, so I'm bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when I'm under the gun, I just fail.

There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

I have done some bad things - things I can't and won't talk about. Nothing that bad, but if that stuff was printed in the papers, they'd paint me as a bad guy. I couldn't be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect. But I really don't want to be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect.

Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

Every problem contains a solution. The key is self-discipline and surrender of the mental habits to the Holy Spirit.

Cooking simple, delicious meals at home is the key to maintaining your family's healthy eating habits.

Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

It's not easy to keep good sleep habits as an entrepreneur, especially at the early stages when there's always a fire to put out.

I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.

Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Certainly, you may have been hurt beofre in love, but just because you get one bad apple doesn't mean they are all bad - and you can learn from the difficult ones.

I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get really thin. Who worries about bulimics? They're just gross.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

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.

I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.

The number of industries, communities, habits, traditions, and even interpersonal interactions that Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize is massive.

Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

My impression of Wall Street growing up was certainly that it was like the big, bad place where all of the men did the bad things with our money.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.

These days, I pay attention to my eating habits and avoid junk food, but looks are not that important to be a good actor.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.