A Quote by Evelyn E. Smith

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

Evelyn E. Smith

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Evelyn E. Smith
American - Writer
July 25, 1922 - July 4, 2000

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

John Armstrong

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

Jack Nicholson

A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.

Deepak Chopra

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

Benjamin Franklin

What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure - that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.

Charles Duhigg

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

Benjamin Franklin

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Denis Waitley

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.

Gretchen Rubin

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

David Kirsch

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Mira Grant

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Theodosia Garrison

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Andy Stanley

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.