Cory Barlog Quotes

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

When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body chemistry is altered by the roles they play.

Habits change into character.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

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

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

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.

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.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don't have Xs on my hands, but I guess if I wanted to go back to calling myself straight-edge, I could. Around that same time I started running. I never saw myself as the kind of person who would become a runner. It seemed unfathomable to me that I would ever run three miles, let alone 26.2.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

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

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

To change your language you must change your life.

It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings

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