In the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits.
These improvements were minor, but they gave me a sense of control over my life.
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
When stuck in middle of a choice, we always do what we must. Do things we think is right. We are actually never get stuck. We just love to feel stuck.
The more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long term goals.
When you dream about making change, excitement inevitably takes over and you end up trying to do too much too soon.
With enough practice, you can pick up on the cues that predicts certain outcomes without consciously thinking about it.
By the time we become adults, we rarely notice the habits that are running our lives.
It’s a hallmark of any compounding process: the most powerful outcomes are delayed.
In the early and middle stages of any quest, there is often a Valley of Disappointment.
Habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance.
When we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results.
If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.
I accumulated small but consistent habits that ultimately led to results that were unimaginable when I started.
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?
Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
This is one of the most surprising insights about our habits: you don’t need to be aware of the cue for a habit to begin.
The primary reason the brain remembers the past is to better predict what will work in the future.