Edmund Spenser Quotes

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

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.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

If I quit all the things I loved cold turkey, I knew it would only be so long before I went back to my old ways.

If you take over a programme from a longstanding incumbent, not everyone's going to like it.

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.

Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old way.

You can't teach an old hater new truths.

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want.

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less

Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.