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“There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.”

Men Long Differences Habit Contact Editors Privileged

Book:Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”

Character Feelings Action Influence Effects Example Habit Exercise Accounts Constant Contact Permanent Unconscious Imitation Impressive Alterations Approximation Impressionable

Book:Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

“That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.”

Desire Certain Moral Conditions Industry Habit Essentials Improvement Contact Native Native American Tribes Foxes Settlement

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.”

Stills Important Care Pain Order Taken Habit Fit Responsible Management Contact Employee Executives Satisfying Indulge Indulge In Courteous Short Sighted

Author:B. C. Forbes

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.”

Needs Persons Said Numbers One Thing Heard Advice Willing Habit Conversation Contact Uncomfortable Resolve Success In Life Attempting

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.”

Knows Want Ideas Sometimes Action Belief Cases Position Genius Habit Letting Go Stuck Contact Something New Want Something Old Ideas

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.”

World Way Humans Fighting Individual Military Fields Habit Battle Mathematics Strategy Arise Contact Agriculture Harvest Tactics Multiplicity Tactics And Strategy

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

“The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Literature Individual Sides Mistake Worst Habit Contact Assumption Encounters Unfortunate Both Sides First Contact

Author:David Brin