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“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.”

Humans Action Desire Turns Consciousness Habit Burning Vigorous Human Actions Implants Burning Desire Desire For Success

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.”

Values Individual Consciousness Habit Revenge Collectives Unconsciousness Exacting Revenge

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.”

Bits Consciousness Painting Habit Pure Composition Shameless

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.”

People Thinking World Firsts Earth Existence Consciousness Design Habit Citizens Madness Rational Our Time Sanity Fulfilling Requirements World Citizen

Author:Norman Cousins

“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.”

Men Humans Matter Human Beings Half Consciousness Regret Ought Habit Conservative Enormous Agents Miserable Habitual Indecision

Author:William James

“Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.”

Way Children Stills Different Real Mother Consciousness Habit Degrees Daughter Different Ways Mutual Mother And Daughter

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.”

Consciousness Habit Conscious Connections Performances Arise Phases Interfere Spoil Formation New Habits

Book:More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.”

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time.”

Source: Speak, Memory: A Memoir