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- 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…
- The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go out the window,…
- Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
- Shampoo doesn’t have to foam, but we add foaming chemicals because people expect it each time they wash their hair. Same thing with laundry detergent.…
- If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.
- Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could…
- Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year,…
- 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…
- When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless…
- Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom -- and the responsibility -- to remake them. Once you understand that habits can…
- Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
- But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your…
- However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that…
- 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.
- If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
- What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we…
- A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a…
- For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
- Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
- Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be…
- There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
- Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
- Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They…
- Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
- Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow…
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- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon