Charlie Brooker Quotes

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make them, like everyone else, but I can't think of one I have stuck to for more than 24 hours.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

I do have a lot of resolutions, but I don't really make them at New Year's much.

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

Motivation levels differ person to person, as does the time since failing new year resolutions.

I wish I were more disciplined.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

In the past I would give myself a reason to have an excuse. I wouldn't show up at the gym. I wouldn't do what I'm supposed to do as a professional.

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

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

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.