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“The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.”

Knows Reason Earth Form Opportunity Creativity Depends Habit Normal Spring Accidents Disaster Extinction Dinosaurs New Opportunity Speciation

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.”

Knows Humans Reason Doors Habit Accidents Human Reason

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.”

Long Life Is Depends Habit Healthy Accidents Genes Healthy Life Good Habits Good Genes

Author:Dan Buettner

“There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.”

People Ifs World Animal Habit Eating India Increase Raises Population China Accidents Starving Imposing Obese Eating Habits China And India Agribusiness

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that sometimes when things go wrong, it is just an accident. In order to change how we lay blame, we’re going to have to change our over-protective habits; children can only learn to take responsibility when given a chance to assess and mitigate risk for themselves.”

Children Sometimes Order Individual Given Chance Responsibility Accepting Risk Habit Blame Lays Accidents Taking Responsibility Protective When Things Go Wrong Given A Chance

Author:Gever Tulley