A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I grew up cursing a lot.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

‚House of Balloons‘ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can’t see any difference between take one and take 20.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.