A Quote by Abigail Van Buren

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

Abigail Van Buren

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Bad Bad Habit Disappears Do-It-Yourself Habit Never Project Undo Yourself

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Abigail Van Buren
American - Columnist
July 4, 1918 - January 16, 2013

I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.

Brian Eno

And as I recall, you told me to shut up. (Acheron) I’m an asshole. I admit it. I’ve been going to weekly Assholes Anonymous meetings, but it takes a long time to undo a few thousand years of habit. And to think you have even more years to undo than me. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.

Champ Bailey

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

Dennis Prager

I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.

Meryl Streep

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Stephen Covey

To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

Jennifer Beals

A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make

Boonaa Mohammed

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

Jack Nicholson

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

Elizabeth George

The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way.

Rajneesh

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.