Breaking Habits Quotes

I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.

At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

I want to take chances. I want to kind of step out of my comfort zone, whatever that may be.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.

It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

Some are happy with where their comfort zone is, but I like to be constantly tested, and I think it's good.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Sometimes comfort zones are the best. Sometimes discomfort is just what the doctor ordered.

I reached a point in my private life where I started having these thoughts about changing. But I was paralyzed by fear, that I would lose everything that I had worked very hard to achieve up until that point.

People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.

How many of us have these demons or habits or things we don't like about ourselves and understand the loops that we're in and yet are unable to break out of them and create lasting change within ourselves?

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and beat these addictions but he didn't. He sort of designed his own, you know, sort of rehabilitation at home. And anybody could do what he did. When he felt like having a cigarette after he ate, he would get up and walk. At cocktail hour when he used to have a drink and watch the news, he stopped watching the news. He couldn't. He couldn't watch the news and not have a drink and a cigarette. He would walk.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Isn't it about getting out of your comfort zone and getting off the couch and challenging yourself and forcing yourself to do things you wouldn't other do? Otherwise, what are you living for?

You can't get tied into your past. It's not fun for me. You can't just keep doing the same material forever. Some people just play the hits, and it's the same show every night. They're happy to do that. I personally am not.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.

Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.