Charles Duhigg Quotes

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

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

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

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

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

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.

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

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

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year.

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

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

Old habits die hard, and if you're not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you're trying to become.

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.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.

I can't change your life till I can get you to change your daily routine.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

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

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.