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“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

Life Inspirational Break Habit Easier Improvement Poor Richard Bad Habits Quit Smoking Creatures Of Habit

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.”

Way Done Past Fighting Memories Situation Habit Easier Shapes Starting Territory Habitual Fresh Start Present Situation

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

“It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.”

Habit Easier Thistles

Author:Austin O'Malley

“It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.”

Feelings Enemy Our Lives Habit Easier Assuming Profound Routine Inertia Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.”

Break Habit Easier Bad Habits Good Habits

Book:Miss Melville's Revenge

Source: Miss Melville's Revenge

“Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.”

Way Giving May Sometimes Helping Bigs Energy Interest Loses Habit Easier Majors Stress Transformation Excitement Minors Insignificant Authentic Happiness Major Change Under Stress

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Facts Goes On Habit Easier Late Training Tongue Singers Breathing Relaxation Lungs Bad Habits Easier Times

Author:Joan Baez

“It's much easier to put yourself out there under the guise of a character. You get a different name, different habits, different words. When I have to just be Nathan, that's when I feel vulnerable.”

Feels Different Character Names Habit Easier Vulnerable Guise Different Names Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Nathan Parsons

“An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.”

World Giving This World Habit Easier Giving Up Unfortunate Good Habits Unfortunate Things

Author:W. Somerset Maugham