Adam Neumann Quotes

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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

The soaps are great training. You can form good habits - or you can form bad habits. You have to set your goals. If you're not clear on what you want, you can slip into bad habits. It can become a comfortable place, and you don't grow.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.