Bootsy Collins Quotes

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.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests.

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".

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 began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

Reading is good, action is better.

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

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

Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.

Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education help develop conviction about the need to change & increase your commitment. Conviction then develops into determination. Next, strong determination leads to action: a sustained effort to implement the changes. This final factor of effort is critical.

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

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

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

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.