Srikumar Rao Quotes

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

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

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

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

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

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.