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“Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.”

Way Character Certain Challenges Virtue Events Habit Mark Vices Disposition Profile Bad Habits Good Habits

Author:Thomas Lickona

“Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

“Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.”

Thinking Done Past Artist Fall Challenges Habit Laurels Challenge Yourself

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature of habit, I don't find it hard to do. I quite enjoy the challenge.”

Thinking Hard Enjoy Challenges Habit Creatures Retired Creatures Of Habit

Author:Victoria Pendleton

“Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.”

“Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.”

Self Age Past Purpose Challenges Self Esteem Habit Prejudice Familiar Esteem Cosmos Nerves Cosmic Fanaticism Scarcity Pseudoscience

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.”

Thinking Want Song Challenges Habit Pops Pop Song

Author:Gwenno

“Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.”

Challenges Habit Eating Connections And Love Notion Folks Eating Habits Reframing Food And Love

Author:Kris Carr

“There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as practiced in the publishing industry. There need to be grants and government support and a few publishers, mainstream and independent, who are not afraid to challenge American readership. We need to build a network of translators, publishers and readers. We hope that our annual anthology might provide an upsurge in interest for European fiction and then, as we publish it every year, become a habit to many readers.”

Kind Interest Challenges Support Habit Capitalism Independent Not Afraid Publishing Publish Translators

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Fall Reading Goal Challenges Worst Changed Poet Habit Nightmare Get Away Publishing Exploring Publish Reading Habits

Author:Andrew Latimer

“The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”

Mind Born Challenges Habit Difficulty Vigorous Contending

Author:Abigail Adams

“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

Way Two Real Self Suffering Fall Fear Challenges Worry Habit Losing Tragedy Grieving Destructive Inner Strength Two Ways Self Destructive Losing Hope

Author:Dalai Lama