Quotes About Change

Oh, it's a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short, When you reach September.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

2. The self-image can be changed. Numerous case histories have shown that one is never too young or too old to change his self-image and thereby start to live a new life. One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

Ideas are changed, not by will, but by other ideas

Our present thinking, our mental habits, our attitudes towards past experiences, and our attitudes towards the future - all have an influence upon old recorded [neuronal] engrams. The old can be changed, modified, replaced, by our present thinking.

It has been amply demonstrated that attempting to use effort or willpower to change beliefs or to cure bad habits has an adverse, rather than a beneficial, effect.

experiments proved that the best way to break a habit is to form a clear mental image of the desired end result, and to practice without effort toward reaching that goal.

thought to change their thinking of the "self" which was to accomplish these things.

For it is with the thinking part of our personality that we draw conclusions, and select the "goal images" that we shall concentrate upon. The minute that we change our minds and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses its power over us.

The self-image can be changed.

Positive thinking" cannot be used effectively as a patch or a crutch to the same old self-image.

The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior.

When you change a man's face you almost invariably change his future. Change his physical image and nearly always you change the man—his personality, his behavior—and sometimes even his basic talents and abilities.

Positive thinking" does indeed "work" when it is consistent with the individual's self-image. It literally cannot "work" when it is inconsistent with the self-image—until the self-image itself has been changed.)

a person has to start in the present to acquire some maturity so that the future may be better than the past. The present and the future depend on learning new habits and new ways of looking at old problems

21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to jell.

Get a New Mental Picture of Yourself

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YOUR CASE HISTORY List here an experience from your past that is explained by the principles given in this chapter:

Negative feedback always says in effect, "Stop what you're doing, or the way you're doing it—and do something else." Its purpose is to modify response, or change the degree of forward action—not to stop all action. Negative feedback does not say, "Stop—period!" It says, "What you are doing is wrong," but it does not say, "It is wrong to do anything.

the castle's vault. Order and goodness reigned once again in the realm, and the night now offered its own promise. But this time the dream was somehow different. Changing. Going into a world of fantasy she'd never experienced before. She felt his