Quotes About Habit

the common denominator of success—the secret of success of every man and woman who has ever been successful—lies in the fact that they formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

Fear is a conditioned response, a life-draining habit that can easily consume your energy, creativity and spirit if you are not careful. When fear rears its ugly head, beat it down quickly. The best way to do that is to do the thing you fear. Fast.

The ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

You just need to make it through that sixty-six-day habit installation process so that waking up at 5 AM reaches The Automaticity Point. And it becomes easier to get up early than sleep later.

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do," remarked essayist and thinker E. M. Gray. "They don't like doing them either, necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

The first step to eliminating a negative habit is to become aware of it.

sow a thought, reap an action, sow an action, reap a habit, sow a habit, reap a character, sow a character, reap a destiny!

on an average day the average person runs about sixty thousand thoughts through his mind. What really amazed me, though, was that ninety-five percent of those thoughts were the same as the ones you thought the day before!

The reward is what kickstarts and then grows your drive to get the new habit done. Always use the power of rewards for the advancement of your triumphs.

soy una adicta a la tecnología. No puedo parar de consultarlo todo. Es la primera cosa que hago por la mañana y la última por la noche. Está consumiendo mi concentración.

Elite producers and everyday heroes understand that what you do each day matters far more than what you do once in a while.

make the better daily choices

On an average day, the average person thinks about 60,000 thoughts. Even more startling is the fact that 95% of those thoughts are the same as the ones you thought the day before.

Deci oboseala ta nu e nimic mai mult decat o creatie mentala, un obicei rau, pe care mintea ta l-a cultivat pentru a-ti folosi drept carja cand indeplinesti o sarcina anosta.

Julian added: "The sages taught me that on an average day the average person runs about sixty thousand thoughts through his mind. What really amazed me, though, was that ninety-five percent of those thoughts were the same as the ones you thought the day before!

I did it all mechanically. Mechanically, as in without thought, as in through force of habit, as in instinctively, automatically, involuntarily. Mechanically, as in like-a-machine.

When you indulge in wine let [it] be sparingly—never go beyond three glasses—but by no means every day.

Such luxury was not their usual style.

Hamilton's lifelong habit of talking sotto voce while pacing lent him an air of either inspiration or madness.)

Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual my become beautiful. (P224)

Joe was probably the only other human on the planet who liked coffee as much as I did. He started drinking it when he was six. I copied him immediately. I was four. Neither of us has stopped since. The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline.

My name is Jack Reacher, and once I was a military cop, with heavy emphasis on the past tense. I have been out nearly as long as I was in. But old habits die hard. I had stepped into the bar the same way I always step anywhere, which is carefully.

He dropped by the office, to pay for another night's stay. He always rented rooms one night at a time, even when he knew he was going to hang out in a place longer. It was a reassuring habit. A comforting ritual, intended to confirm his absolute freedom to move on.