Tom Waits Quotes

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

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

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

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

It takes a habit to replace a habit.

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

I have to reinvent myself.

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

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

I change, like every single normal person.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

As you step into your limitless self, you might be confronted with old habits and patterns that are not necessarily based in truth. These old ways of being show up because you have repeated many of them thousands of times.

We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

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

I used to love going out and celebrating with the lads. But we can do that in the hotel and I don't miss it. I don't feel that urge any more. Once you make the transition to not doing it then you don't miss it.

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.

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

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.