Best habit & acquire Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.”

“Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.”

Natural Too Much Habit Mouths Lips Heavy Tendencies Nervous Acquire Smoking Cigar Curls Havana

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".”

Ifs Art Facts Ready Bears Habit Medicine Fruit Oneself Conclusion Acquire Affirmation Infallible Deceptive Treacherous Generalization Hold Fast

Author:Hippocrates

“A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.”

Humans Stills Important Facts Use Human Beings Situation Progress Possibility Habit Method Acquire Continuing

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.”

People Ifs Government Democracy Century Habit Discipline Democratic Seven Decades Britain Acquire Democratic Government Traverse

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end.”

Soul Ends Desire Certain Individual Strong Numbers Habit Limits Species Acquire Preservation Accustomed Superfluous

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.”

“Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.”

Way Humans Children Has Beens Able Taught Habit Creatures Normal Acquire Psychologist Taught Us Motion Pictures Retarded Slow Motion

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.”

Source: Evans's Pedestrious Tour

“I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.”

Thinking Mind Littles Habit Acquire Habits Of Mind

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.”

Regret Habit Acquire Idle You Will Regret

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.”

Children Littles Hands Broken Habit Training Great Things Acquire Puppy Bad Habits Inattention

Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.”

Needs Giving Lying Voice Loses Silence Danger Listening Habit Comfort Essentials Acquire True Friend Resisting

Author:Francois Fenelon

“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”

Love Should Tears Emotional Habit Majors Acquire Lasting Cigar Hurrying Lasting Love Cuban Cigars

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.”

Littles Said Father Christ Minutes Regret Habit Wheels Acquire Worn Idle You Will Regret

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

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