Habitual Quotations

The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.

Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Most states have effective habitual offender laws. These laws take the most likely group of potential capital murderers off the street,

He says he's not a habitual drug abuser but this was his anniversary trip and he thought that he would experiment so that he could better enjoy his anniversary with his wife.

Thus the great gulf between physical and psychological research persists only when we acquiesce in our habitual stereotyped conceptions.

We came out well tonight. Unfortunately, they came out better in the third quarter. We looked a little bit dazed and confused, which has been a habitual thing for us this season. When you let them get going, they're tough to handle.

We don't feel like we have any habitual offenders at the airport. Otherwise they wouldn't be operating at the airport.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

We oppose the habitual use of sanctions, or threats of sanctions, to solve problems. This only complicates problems.

We know for a fact that several of the people staying at the motel were habitual burglars.

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.

It would be too easy for countries that are habitual violators of human rights to get onto the Human Rights Council.

This ban is meant to shut down an infomercial empire that has misled American consumers for years. Other habitual false advertisers should take a lesson: mend your ways or face serious consequences.

I didn't have much chance to face Zhang before, even in training. She is really a top player, so tomorrow's final should be very exciting. And it's a good opportunity for us to get habitual to the new scoring rules.

The essence of my dramaturgical considerations is that I want to chuck out the most superfluous, habitual constraints and escape from rigidity, but at the same time film is a means of communication.

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Alabama does have one of the most stringent habitual felony offender acts.

It's Motorola. They've been habitual offenders when it comes to earnings warnings.

It says the decline the brain experiences late in life is not inevitable. It can be affected by things like habitual exercise.

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.

One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

Change your habitual questions and change your destiny!