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“I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.”

Feels Moments Might Action My Own Habit Circumstances Responsible Response Reactions Thoughtful Annoying Pauses Pausing

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.”

Ifs Needs Problem Jobs Next Asks Opportunity Interest Steps Team Industry Habit Members Seeking Employee Annoying Promotion Suggesting Follow Up Team Member Job Opportunities

Author:Martin Zwilling

“One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.”

Political Moral Virtue Habit Tendencies Agendas Annoying Moral Virtues Political Agendas

Author:Robert Stacy McCain

“The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.”

Use Political Habit Victory Defeat Annoying Summit Political Victory

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.”

Way Art Sometimes Kids Law Parent Goal Crazy Habit Math Swimming Annoying Doomed Spouse In-laws Bad Habits

Author:Ian Bogost

“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”

People Remember History Habit Annoying Eragon

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.”

Thinking Want Should Ends Habit Bites Annoying Should I You Again Thinking About You Eric Northman

Book:Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

“The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me.”

People Should Habit Should Have Conclusion Annoying Correcting Wrong Conclusion

Author:Ilona Andrews