“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.” HumansActionDesireTurnsConsciousnessHabitBurningVigorousHuman ActionsImplantsBurning DesireDesire For Success Author:Paul J. Meyer
“Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.” ValuesIndividualConsciousnessHabitRevengeCollectivesUnconsciousnessExacting Revenge Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.” BitsConsciousnessPaintingHabitPureCompositionShameless Author:Kazimir Malevich
“The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsEarthExistenceConsciousnessDesignHabitCitizensMadnessRationalOur TimeSanityFulfillingRequirementsWorld Citizen Author:Norman Cousins
“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.” MenHumansMatterHuman BeingsHalfConsciousnessRegretOughtHabitConservativeEnormousAgentsMiserableHabitualIndecision Author:William James
“Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.” WayChildrenStillsDifferentRealMotherConsciousnessHabitDegreesDaughterDifferent WaysMutualMother And Daughter Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.” ConsciousnessHabitConsciousConnectionsPerformancesArisePhasesInterfereSpoilFormationNew Habits Book:More Lay Thoughts of a Dean Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean
“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.” MeanWholeCertainSocialConsciousnessAttitudeInformationEmotionalProductsCommunicationIndustryHabitBehaviorIntellectualPatternsEntertainmentReactionsProducersConsumersLatterFalsehoodManipulateIrresistibleImmuneOutputSocial SystemsMeans Of CommunicationEmotional Reactions Author:Herbert Marcuse