Habitual Thinking Quotes

What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see.

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

Habits change into character.

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

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

Change your habitual questions and change your destiny!

'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.

Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

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.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

Habit is ten times nature.