“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.” WantNeedsWritingYearsBelieveTwoImportantArtistI BelieveEasyNovelToo MuchHabitConcernedPressureExpectedTechniqueNovelistsTwo YearsRoutineNot InterestedImprovingAvoidingEasy To GetTime Of Need Author:Chinua Achebe
“It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.” ShouldMatterMoralVirtueAtheismEffectsPolicyHabitIntellectualConcernConcernedPositive AtheismInevitableDiscouragingPublic PolicyInstill Author:Wendy Kaminer
“The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.” StillsMatterProblemAbilityPracticeStudentsHabitConcernedMethodSilentOneselfInstructionSessionScholarshipDiscussingAttendingImportsScholarlyMemorizing Author:Ibn Khaldun
“Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.” HumansDifferentActionFormHuman BeingsDogHabitConcernedHorseAssociation Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary references, because in the end, I'm concerned, not in an abstract way, but an actual way, with creating a world which has a universality to it - even though what goes on is made up of texture and detail, contemporary detail.” WorldHabitConcernedAbstract Author:Mike Leigh
“The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.” PeopleWorldReligiousSubjectsPolicyHabitWorshipReflectionConcernedPhilosopherVariousEnlightenedMutualSenateIndulgenceEmperorSuperstitiousTolerationMagistrates Author:Edward Gibbon