Weekend Words: Habit
Picasso is suddenly everywhere — at the Cubism exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, in gallery shows of his photography and his portraits of Jacqueline Roque, and at the long-delayed reopening of his museum in Paris.
Picasso is suddenly everywhere — at the Cubism exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, in gallery shows of his photography and his portraits of Jacqueline Roque, and at the long-delayed reopening of his museum in Paris:
“I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don’t know nor can I do anything else.”
—Pablo Picasso
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.“
—Aristotle
“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”
—Desiderius Erasmus
“Not choice
But habit rules the unreflecting herd.”
—William Wordsworth, “Grant that by their unsparing hurricane”
“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”
—Albert Camus
“If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.”
—Andre Maurois
“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.”
—Mickey Mantle
“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”
—Lewis Carroll
“The air is full of our cries. But habit is the great deadener.”
—Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
