#habits

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#enough #fixed #formation #grateful #grew

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. ↗

— Sven Birkerts

#reading-habits #age

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change. ↗

— Therese Anne Fowler

#rules #change

Crash diets don't work. They don't work for losing weight, they don't work for making sales quota and they don't work for getting and keeping a job. The reason they don't work has nothing to do with what's on the list of things to be done (or consumed). No, the reason they don't work is that they don't change habits, and habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made. ↗

— Seth Godin

#change

It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours. ↗

— Charles Duhigg

#business