Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

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

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

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

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.