Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that.

I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.

You will never change anything that you are willing to tolerate.

For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

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