Thomas M. Sterner Quotes

#1. The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

Thomas M. Sterner

#2. Habits and practice are very interrelated. What we practice will become a habit.

Thomas M. Sterner

#3. Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

Thomas M. Sterner

#4. We think too many thoughts at once, most of them the same thoughts we had yesterday and the day before. We are impatient with life, and anxious.

Thomas M. Sterner

#5. Habits are learned. Choose them wisely.

Thomas M. Sterner

#6. The feeling "I'll be happy when X happens" will never bring you anything but discontentment.

Thomas M. Sterner

#7. Rushing had become so much of a habit that I was amazed at the amount of concentration it took to work slowly on purpose.

Thomas M. Sterner

#8. You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

Thomas M. Sterner

#9. So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for the ride unknowingly and without making a choice.

Thomas M. Sterner