Habit

The program features several of Mr. Fessenden's unpredictable twists on genre — vampires in "Habit," weird science in "No Telling," Native American lore in "Wendigo" and "The Last Winter" — as well as sharp-witted turns by directors Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Graham Reznick and James McKenney.

New York's Monster of Independent Film Steve Dollar 2010

Habit is to me not second, but first nature, and I easily become mechanical and fixed in my routine ....

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

Habit is second nature; as therefore it is morally impossible that the Jews can alter their inveterate habits of sin, nothing remains but the infliction of the extremest punishment, their expatriation (Jer 13: 24).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

"Habit" -- the last word of his practical philosophy -- indolent habit! what would this mean, in the intellectual life, but just that sort of dead judgments which, because the mind, the eye, were no longer really at work in them, are most opposed to the essential quickness and freedom of the spirit?

Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866

Instead, he offered plenty of advice that research would later support, or that pop psychologists would borrow: "You will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did"; "Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time"; "Courage ... is mastery of fear – not absence of fear" (aka Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway).

This column will change your life: The wit and wisdom of Mark Twain Oliver Burkeman 2010

Habit is second nature; and his second nature was to be tossed about by winds and waves; passing with more or less speed over the blank waste of the mighty ocean, or along dimly-seen coasts whose pale blue outline by day, and starlike light-houses by night, give such guidance to an otherwise trackless course, as was given of old by the pillar of cloud and fire in Scripture; and in a manner which seems almost as miraculous to the uninitiated.

Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

Montaigne begins his essay discussing the power of habit, how “Habit is a violent and treacherous schoolteacher” that “gradually and stealthily slides her (why is habit a her?) authoritative foot into us” so gently and humbly that we don’t even notice until it is too late and habit’s “angry and tyrannous countenance” is revealed.

Michel de Montaigne: Like a Bad Habit « So Many Books 2004

That’s why I call Habit 3 the habit of will-power (the strength to say yes to your most important things) and won’t-power (the strength to say no to less important things and to peer pressure).

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998

That’s why I call Habit 3 the habit of will-power (the strength to say yes to your most important things) and won’t-power (the strength to say no to less important things and to peer pressure).

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998

That’s why I call Habit 3 the habit of will-power (the strength to say yes to your most important things) and won’t-power (the strength to say no to less important things and to peer pressure).

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998