Shawn Achor Quotes

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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

If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.

Success is not a secret that is hidden from you.Success is a habit that is readily avaiable to you.

Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

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

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

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

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

You have to look at areas you want to get better at, both in yourself and as a team.

I would say each day I'm still growing and still learning, but negatives, obviously they're always going to criticise me for my goals and assists, which I need to add to my game if I want to be compared with the people I'm playing with.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.