"Old habits cannot be thrown out the..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
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“It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.”
“Never mistake motion for progress.”
“I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.”
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“Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.”
“Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.”
“Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.”
More on Change
“But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.”
“When your through changing, your through!”
“What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.”