R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

The environment shapes people's actions.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

Your environment influences your mindset.

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

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

I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.

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

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

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

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

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

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

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

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

It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

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

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).