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“The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.”

Thinking Humans Life Is Goal Steps Greater Greatness Keys Habit Roots Leap Small Steps

Author:Robert Genn

“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?”

“here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.”

Greatness Habit Texas Confusing

Book:Giant

Source: Giant

“The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.”

Needs Feels Firsts Objects Greatness Habit Higher Circumstances Comfort Activity Perception Lows Luxury Indifference Palaces Banquets

Book:Society and solitude

Source: Society and solitude

“Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.”

Kind Greater Greatness Habit Drinking Foe Intemperance

Author:Walter Scott

“Highly competitive athletes like Ginny Gilder have a gift for tolerating pain and ignoring adversity. They accept these things as the price they pay for greatness. These habits of mind and body serve us well in many aspects of our lives, but not in all aspects of our lives. Course Correction is about taking time to heal and exploring the joy that lies beyond adversity.”

“It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.”

Thinking Hard Greatness Keys Habit Great Writers Magical Thinking Work Habits

Author:Zoë Heller

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”

“I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.”

Wells Feelings Names Dying Greatness Habit Sorry Milton Great Author Chaucer

Author:Mark Twain

“We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.”

Needs Christian Joy Natural Greatness Habit Worship Flow Endless Celebrate Yield Godly Thankfulness Zeal Psalms Graciousness Christian Worship

Author:J. I. Packer

“When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.”

Effort Half Team Greatness Habit Regard Champion Subtle Teamwork Traits Hearted Consuming Entitlement Grind Sap Milestone Erosion Half Hearted

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”

Greatness Habit Program Profession Programmers Computer Science Professionalism Skillful

Book:Refactoring: Ruby Edition

Source: Refactoring: Ruby Edition