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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Habit
		Habit is acquired by exercise; in this it differs from the instincts and other natural predispositions and aptitudes which are innate.
		habit to the perceived or foreseen movements of the adversary.
		habits some are acquired by practice, others are innate like the habitus primorum principiorum, that is, the innate aptitude of the human mind to grasp at once the truth of self-evident principles as soon as their meaning is understood.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07099b.htm (3320 words)

	zen habits \| Simple Productivity
		I also allowed myself to get overweight with bad eating habits (and a lack of exercise) over the course of several years, and now I’m trying to work it off (flat stomach by early next year!).
		I’m only now learning habits that I wish I had when I was entering adulthood.
		The purpose of these monthly challenges is to form a new habit in 30 days by doing them daily and reporting to the group of fellow challengers.
	zenhabits.net (2438 words)

	Crystal habit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crystal habit may mislead the inexperienced as a mineral's crystal system can be hidden or disguised.
		Factors influencing a crystal's habit include: a combination of two or more forms; trace impurities present during growth; crystal twinning and growth conditions (i.e., heat, pressure, space).
		Some habits of a mineral are unique to its variety and locality: For example, while most sapphires form elongate barrel-shaped crystals, those found in Montana form stout tabular crystals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crystal_habit (382 words)

	Habit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Religious habit, as it applies to the distinctive dress worn by the members of a religious order
		Riding habit, as it applies to formal riding clothes worn for hunting or for exhibition
		Plant habit: the general appearance, growth form, or architecture, of a plant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Habit (170 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		So called from the female bird's alleged habit of changing mates, or her authentic habit of leaving eggs in another bird's nest.
		Meaning "habit of indulgence in what is choice or costly" is from 1633; that of "sumptuous surroundings" is from 1704; that of "something enjoyable or comfortable beyond life's necessities" is from 1780.
		Among its proverbial peculiarities are indiscriminate voracity (especially a habit of swallowing iron and stone to aid digestion), want of regard for its eggs, and a tendency to hide its head in the sand when pursued.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=HABIT (2597 words)

	About Habit Software
		Habit 2000 and Habit X 1.0 are Macintosh programs developed by the University of Texas at Austin Children's Research Lab to aid in infant habituation studies.
		Habit 2000 and Habit X 1.0 support experiments consisting of pretest, habituation, and/or test phases of stimuli presentation (not all phases need be used).
		Habit 2000 and Habit X 1.0 are available to interested academic researchers free of charge.
	homepage.psy.utexas.edu /homepage/Group/CohenLab/habit2000/about.html (326 words)

	Classics in the History of Psychology -- James (1890) Chapter 4
		It thus appears that habit covers a very large part of life, and that one engaged in studying the objective manifestations of mind is bound at the very outset to define clearly just what its limits are.
		For, of course, a simple habit, like every other nervous event - the habit of snuffling, for example, or of putting one's hands into one's pockets, or of biting one's nails - is, mechanically, nothing but a reflex [p.108] discharge; and its anatomical substratum must be a path in the system.
		Habit is ten times nature," the Duke of Wellington is said to have exclaimed; and the degree to which this is true no one can probably appreciate as well as one who is a veteran soldier himself.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /James/Principles/prin4.htm (7940 words)

	Habit Quotations
		Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
		Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
		Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
	www.quotationsbook.com /subjects/546/Habit (1770 words)

	The Leadership Labyrinth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The most significant consequence of NOT making something a habit is that these activities would stand a good chance of not getting done, either because we forgot about it or because, having remembered, we lack the ability to motivate ourselves at the time of the remembering to take the action.
		Perhaps a habit of eating a proper breakfast, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, saving a little money every week, paying your bills on time, drinking water throughout the day, staying in touch with friends, exercising, stretching, reading a little everyday, relaxing, writing in a journal.
		It is hard to install a new habit if you keep ending up at the end of the day remembering that you were meaning to take the stairs at work instead of the elevator.
	www.stephanieburns.com /articles/article06_habit.asp (2380 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Habit Movie Review
		Larry Fessenden's Habit takes place in a world which is slightly askew -- existing in that existential zone of weeks and months after the death of a father or a recent break-up with a girlfriend whose arid relationship has been suffered through.
		This is representative of Habit as a whole -- there's a freedom for the audience to interpret the material however they choose, or even change their minds.
		Habit reminds us that if we look outside of the mainstream within the stacks of our local Blockbuster, there are still stories with the potential to provoke as well as entertain.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /habit.html (1360 words)

	Definition of Habit from dictionary.net
		The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.
		Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior.
		Habit is a disposition or tendency leading us to do easily, naturally, and with growing certainty, what we do often; custom is external, being habitual use or the frequent repetition of the same act.
	www.dictionary.net /habit (266 words)

	all things William
		Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
		Thoroughness is the most difficult habit to acquire, but it is the pearl of great price, worth all the worry and trouble of the search.
		When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
	allthingswilliam.com /habit.html (955 words)

	Wikinfo \| Habit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Whatever you do will become a habit and will be anticipated, for example if you always eat lunch at 11.00 you will become hungery at 11.
		Habits can be developed conciously if you wish to gain control over the phenomenon; simply start doing something on a regular basis.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=habit (216 words)

	HABit Utilities
		You may use any (or all) of the HABit utilities free of charge for as long as you wish except that if you find them useful, you are requested to contact the author by email to let him know that you are using the utility/ies.
		HABit utilities may not be included in any commercial package nor on any "Cover disks" without the authors explicit permission.
		HABit Tidy (HABTidy) is a Windows wrapper for the HTML Tidy for Windows command-line utility and allows you to clean up HTML code and correct any mistakes that you may have made.
	www.hotkey.net.au /~hambar/habit/habutil.htm (3424 words)

	habit articles on Encyclopedia.com
		The name is derived from their habit of breaking off arms as a means of defense.
		alpine plants ALPINE PLANTS [alpine plants] high-altitude representatives of various flowering plants (chiefly perennials) that because of their dwarf habit, profuse blooming, and the preference of many for shady places are cultivated in alpine and rock gardens.
		The name is said to derive from their habit of twisting their necks when disturbed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=habit (492 words)

	substitute new behavior to break a bad habit - psychological self-help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		To overcome a habit, the new response should be (l) not distracting to others, (2) able to prevent the old response and ideally (3) something you can do for 3 minutes while carrying on normal activities.
		In many self-help projects to overcome a bad habit, it may be helpful for the person to continue the substitute behavior for a minute or two after it has overcome the unwanted urge.
		Becoming aware enough to catch the onset of the bad habit may be hard, requiring special attention and effort until the habit weakens.
	mentalhelp.net /psyhelp/chap11/chap11h.htm (1896 words)

	How to Change a Habit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If it is a habit to eliminate, you may wish to go "cold turkey" or have a gradual tapering off.
		Caution: If it is a drug or chemical habit you are planning on eliminating, be sure to obtain an expert's opinion as to whether you need to taper off usage as opposed to quitting cold turkey.
		For example, if you are changing eating habits and you have identified a particularly difficult time of the day when eating habits are poor, create an activity, a new routine for that time.
	www.feinet.com /pubs/200101/eapost/articles/nuhabit.htm (704 words)

	In video stores now!
		Habit was distributed theatrically in the U.S. for over a year by Glass Eye Pix & Passport Cinemas which means 2 people, Larry Fessenden and Michael Ellenbogen booking and promoting the film, fighting for screen time and press.
		HABIT was screening in some corner of the country every day for a full year from October 29 1997 until Halloween 1998 when it became available on video through Fox Lorber.
		HABIT had its commercial premier at Factets Cinematheque in Chicago March 21, 1997.
	www.glasseyepix.com /html/habposter.html (661 words)

	habit definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		I really need to get into the habit of writing down what I spend.
		habit an action or pattern of behavior that is repeated so often that it becomes typical of somebody, although he or she may be unaware of it;
		She had an irritating habit of phoning just as we were about to eat.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861616026/habit.html (417 words)

	FINGERNAIL BITING SELF-THERAPY
		But stress or worry will sometimes bring the habit back and you must recognize that, take care of the stress or wait until it is over, and replay the message.
		I am happy to report today, being August 24th (2001), that my finger nails have recovered and grown to such a length, that they are almost visible over the tips of the fingers when viewed from the palms.
		I have controlled my habit on rare occasions, and for brief periods, but I have never before been able to grow all 10 nails at once.
	www.psychresearch.com /nails.html (5428 words)

	William James on Habit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists."
		"The essence of habit is an acquired predisposition to ways or modes of response, not to particular acts except as, under special conditions, these express a way of behaving.
		Habit means special sensitiveness or accessibility to certain classes of stimuli, predilections and aversions, rather than bare recurrence of specific acts.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/habit.html (355 words)

	Favorite Quotations ~ Habit ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.
		A habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.
		A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /habit.htm (209 words)

	Fitness Habit Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Habits are developed by means of two basic factors: reward and repetition. When adults make changes in their lives through new behavior, they have go through the process of forming new habits. Enthusiasm by itself is not enough.
		Get in the habit of imagining and mentally rehearsing what you want to do. Several times a day, whether you are alone or not, take 20 or 30 seconds to imagine seeing yourself and feeling yourself doing your next scheduled workout.
		Be consistent and use repetition to ingrain a good workout habit in you.
	home.earthlink.net /~fitness_habit (2642 words)

	Habit Software
		Habit 2000 and Habit X 1.0 are Macintosh software packages that are used to present stimuli and collect data in a variety of habituation experiments.
		Developed for use in the infant habituation studies which are conducted in Les Cohen's Infant Cognition Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, Habit 2000 and Habit X 1.0 are in use in studies at several universities around the world.
		The development of the Habit programs was supervised by Dr.
	homepage.psy.utexas.edu /homepage/Group/CohenLab/habit.html (126 words)

	The Habitual Identity
		The habit is intended to prevent us from constant experimenting and risk taking.
		In the object of the habit we see a part of our history, all the time and effort we had put into it.
		Because of this, we tend to confuse habits with identity.
	samvak.tripod.com /habit.html (769 words)

	ambien habit
		Special monitoring during pregnancy only cravings for treating mental alertness until you have some carryover effects may include allergic reactions, including difficulty breathing, Ambien can be taken for your medicine more serious side effects may interact with situations and for long term process.
		Do not be ambien habit sure that you have temporary sleep apnea)an unusual or health care professional as advised by your medicines.What side effects in breast milk, consult your throat; swelling of professional for other sedatives (used to fall and may interact with Ambien.
		Take the morning, or pains; vivid or other side effects of the several hours of any sleep schedule by boosting levels of sleep each dose or 8 full nights rest can be acknowledged as the chains can be prescribed for their addiction recovery.
	www.woofdigital.com /new/ambien/ambien-habit.html (940 words)

	lifehack.org
		First we need to really recognize what a habit actually is. From there we need to develop the ability to become aware of these habits and our ability to seek improvements in them.
		Conditioning - Conditioning a habit is the primary mechanism for installing it.
		Experimentation - Now you will know how to change your habits more effectively and easily, you can really start pushing the boundaries for what is possible.
	www.lifehack.org /tag/habit (1149 words)

	Style: William James's Narrative of Habit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action - and consequently accumulate grain on grain of willful choice like a very miser; never forgetting how one link dropped undoes an indefinite number.
		Hence James rediscovers in habit, that usually so stolid affair, not only a newly valiant source for the homecoming of his very being, but also a language with which to express his restored creative energy.
		From this point on James begins with quiet urgency to develop a narrative of habit, one that proves integral to his writing on the processive self and challenges our assumptions about habit's aesthetic force.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_33/ai_58055905 (242 words)

	habit. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Characteristic appearance, form, or manner of growth, especially of a plant or crystal.
		See ghabh- in Appendix I. habit, practice, custom, usage, use, wont, habitude These nouns denote patterns of behavior established by continual repetition.
		Habit applies to a behavior or practice so ingrained that it is often done without conscious thought: “Habit rules the unreflecting herd” (William Wordsworth).
	www.bartleby.com /61/24/H0002400.html (320 words)

	Amazon.com: Habit: DVD: Alan Bandit,Aaron Beall,Michael Buscemi,Dale Cameron (II),Patricia Coleman (II),Jack ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Less precious then the former and less pretentious than the latter, Habit is a modest, intelligent study of loneliness, addiction, and urban alienation.
		She'll only see him at night, draws blood during ferocious, animalistic sexual encounters, and has a strange habit of disappearing, but when he suspects she's more than she appears, his life turns from romantic idyll to sinister nightmare.
		Fessenden makes an oddly charming lead with his crooked, broken-toothed smile and distracted demeanor, and Snaider is appropriately cryptic as she blows in and out of his life with nary an explanation.
	www.amazon.com /Habit-Alan-Bandit/dp/B00000JS6N (563 words)

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