47 quotes found
“Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones.”
“Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.”
“Live a healthy life.”
“You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.”
“Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinven...”
“Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their...”
“Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework the way we see the world”
“Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.”
“Old Ways May Not Give You UpAn elderly man in a Lobi village once renounced the spirits in favor of Islam by discarding the very beliefs in spirits and mystical inanimate objects that have held our...”
“He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their o...”
“Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.”
“Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.”
“Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.”
“His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.”
“It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.”
“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
“One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isnt true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometime...”
“Habits equal autopilot. Take brushing your teeth for example. Once that becomes a habit, you dont have to write positive affirmations or remind yourself constantly to brush your teeth. It is simply...”
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.”
