Habitual Patterns Quotes

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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

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

'The Power of Habit' is the exact kind of non-fiction I love. It's smart and interesting, and it changes your perception how you do what you do or why you are who you are.

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

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you remember some scene out of the past, or worry about the future. Acting out new action patterns is no more difficult than deciding, then following through on tying your shoes in a new and different manner each morning, instead of continuing to tie them in your old habitual way, without thought or decision.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

I am in a closed state where I'm just reacting and moving based on my instincts, knowledge, technique and years of experience.

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?