T Quotes
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“The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
“The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.”
“The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.”
“The habit of prayer leads to the spirit of prayer.”
“The habit of procrastination, especially by a person who has the necessary skills and resources, could be a tell-tale sign of underachievement.”
“The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness.
The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.
The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make
best use out of every situation.
Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used
to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.”
“The habit of reading books is not yet on the brink of extinction. Not yet. This is in no small part due to an elite corps of frontline workers, people who are holding that line, and sometimes even turning the tide. I'm talking about the thousands of booksellers and librarians working long hours to keep reading alive and getting little recognition for all that they do.”
Source: The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
“The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.”
“The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.”
“The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.”
“The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly undermining the individuality of the national character. There is getting to be so much public right, that private right is overshadowed and lost. A danger exists that the ends of liberty will be forgotten altogether in the means.”
“The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.”
“the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.”
Source: Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...
“The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.”
“The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.”
“The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves depraved by nature, born devils.”
Source: The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
“The habit of trusting God - could there be such a thing? Could such a habit be a lifeline when tribulations swept over you? Could you hang on to it during the worst of the storm without seeing any evidence that it was real? And then when the strongest waves and winds of sorrow had passed, could you realise that what you had held in your hands all along was genuine, that it was your means of rescue?”
Source: By the Light of a Thousand Stars
“The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.”
Source: Statecraft
“The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.”
“The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.”
“The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.”
“The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?”
Source: Streaks of life
“The habit to get out of is the one (1) that goes, "I know what I'm doing, and every distraction is a bad thing that takes me further from my goals." Instead, if you get into the habit of accepting sometimes that distractions can be a path to your manifestations, then that's more neural matter your higher mind has access to, so it can give you it. In a word, it's called having 'grace.' But what it really is, is creating more bridges to your higher mind, increasing your blueshift while minimizing the pushback from the redshift.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“The Habit Trip is a means to an end. It’s a practice of treating ourselves, and others, with basic kindness and respect—radical, that.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose
“The Habit Trip is about learning to hear and respond to our bodies and minds, so our lives can feel better and we can help make other people’s lives feel better. It’s subversive shit, I tell you.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose
“The Habit Trip offers a deliberate method to receive the messages your body is sending and respond in kind with healing reinforcements. It’s an actionable antidote for stress and frustration.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose
“The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.”
“The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.”
“The habits built by taking correct action facilitate the heavy lifting of change.”
Source: sciVive
“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”
Source: Silences
“The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”
“The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.”
“The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art.”
Source: Writing a Book That Makes a Difference
“The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.”
“The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.”
Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing
“The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.”
“The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.”
“The habits of our lives make us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.”
Source: The invention of Morel
“The habits of the West in terms of consumption.”
“The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.”
“The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.”
“The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.”
“The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.”
“The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.”
Source: The War Of Art
“The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.”
“The hacker didn't succeed through sophistication. Rather he poked at obvious places, trying to enter through unlock doors. Persistence, not wizardry, let him through.”
Source: The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
“The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total.
Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
All information should be free.
Mistrust authority--promote decentralization.
Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
You can create art and beauty on a computer.
Computers can change your life for the better.”
“The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.”
“The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.”