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“The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”

People Firsts Matter House Position Building Habit Taste Chosen Holland Building Houses

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.”

Firsts Hard Cutting Habit Stones Adamant

Book:Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

“Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.”

Firsts Humans Kind Whole Use Action Individual Practice Society Conditions Habit Activity Resources Instance Perceive Affected Establishment Adjustment Human Activity

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick”

Firsts Doe Wisdom Habit Australia Discounts

Book:My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

“Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.”

Ifs Firsts Habit Mouths Coffee Bread Awful Milk Cows Calamity

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to the breath again and again we start to dissolve their power. We develop a space between experience and our identification with it, thereby weakening the process that creates habits in the first place.”

Firsts Long Process Space Emotional Habit Breaths Patterns Again And Again Identification Space Between Weakening

Author:Martine Batchelor

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“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.”

People Thinking World Firsts Earth Existence Consciousness Design Habit Citizens Madness Rational Our Time Sanity Fulfilling Requirements World Citizen

Author:Norman Cousins

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

Should Writing Mind Firsts Made Ideas Sometimes Dream Light Lying Night Sleep Habit Bed Quiet Wake Up Disappear Made It Racing

Book:Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

Source: Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms