Habit Quotes by Charles Duhigg

“You Can’t Extinguish a Bad Habit, You Can Only Change It.”

— Charles Duhigg

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.

— Charles Duhigg

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

— Charles Duhigg

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

— Charles Duhigg

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

— Charles Duhigg

“Keystone habits make tough choices—”

— Charles Duhigg

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

— Charles Duhigg

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

— Charles Duhigg

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

— Charles Duhigg

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

— Charles Duhigg

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

— Charles Duhigg

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

— Charles Duhigg

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

— Charles Duhigg

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely…

— Charles Duhigg

When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other…

— Charles Duhigg

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom -- and the responsibility -- to remake them. Once you understand…

— Charles Duhigg

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad…

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Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started…

— Charles Duhigg

“a habit is a formula our brain automatically follows: When I see CUE, I will do ROUTINE in order to get a…

— Charles Duhigg

Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and…

— Charles Duhigg

The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all…

— Charles Duhigg

The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the…

— Charles Duhigg

Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues…

— Charles Duhigg

“This process within our brains is a three-step loop. First, there is a cue, a trigger that tells your brain to go…

— Charles Duhigg

There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students…

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A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the…

— Charles Duhigg

But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last.…

— Charles Duhigg

Shampoo doesn’t have to foam, but we add foaming chemicals because people expect it each time they wash their hair. Same thing…

— Charles Duhigg

“But habits emerge without our permission. Studies indicate that families usually don’t intend to eat fast food on a regular basis. What…

— Charles Duhigg

However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues…

— Charles Duhigg

“Once you know a habit exists, you have the responsibility to change it . . . others have done so . .…

— Charles Duhigg

You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.

— Charles Duhigg

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

— Charles Duhigg

Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

— Charles Duhigg

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

— Charles Duhigg

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

— Charles Duhigg

“Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It’s a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.”

— Charles Duhigg

The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go…

— Charles Duhigg

“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and…

— Charles Duhigg

“Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to…

— Charles Duhigg