“Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.” MindMayStrongInfluenceHabitCarefulObsessionBe CarefulYou ChooseVery StrongSubconsciousSubconscious Mind Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.” LittlesHabitCarefulTeethUsualBrushing Author:Randall Jarrell
“Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.” PeopleYearsMovingJoyNamesPositionHabitSorrowAncientCarefulExtremesSatFiftyCustomsRoutineOld PeopleFurnitureRiteFamily Name Book:Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels
“I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.” IfsFeelsMayChristianSpiritualWeekDutyHairHabitQuietCarefulConversionDrySpiritual LifeGroomingQuiet TimePersonal Grooming Book:WOMAN TO WOMAN Source: WOMAN TO WOMAN
“I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.” SchoolActingStruggleWonderfulHabitCarefulHorribleAshamedYour FaceCigarette Author:Melissa Leo
“One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.” FactsTurnsForceHabitDefinitionsCarefulTendenciesBe CarefulTranslateSheerProbability Author:Fay Weldon
“Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.” TryingWellsLostHabitCarefulDisappearFadesPausesDiscourseStampsHaltTroublesomeUnwantedSummoningToadstools Author:Mark Dunn