Quotes by Old Habits What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing. Albert Camus old-habits country travel A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again. Amos Bronson Alcott old-habits clothes birthday Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love. Bill Crawford old-habits practice way Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself. Bruce Lee old-habits focus mind The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards. Charles Duhigg old-habits differences waiting If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it. Charles Duhigg old-habits accepting dresses Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards. Charles Duhigg old-habits vacation differences For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. Charles Kuralt old-habits expression together Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life. Dan Millman old-habits strong mind When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results. Darren Hardy old-habits effort years Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes. Darren Hardy old-habits lunch outcomes Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation. David Simon old-habits healing reality Old habits are strong and jealous. Dorothea Brande old-habits jealous strong Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you Elbert Hubbard old-habits should advice If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention to them. Without knowing about Law of Attraction, you have - through your old habit of observation - achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them that you do not like, and you keep summoning those parts from them by your constant vibrational offering of them. Esther Hicks old-habits law-of-attraction offering Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want. Esther Hicks old-habits harmony want I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits. Florence Griffith Joyner old-habits ice-cream work-out The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities. Frank Baron old-habits unique success I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own. Gerard Way old-habits voice listening As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life. Goswami Kriyananda old-habits mistake life 123»