habit modification Quotes

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

Changing people's habits is very expensive

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

It takes a habit to replace a habit.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure - that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.

The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.