“The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget there is anything except professional success to live for. The necessity of conforming our habits and standards to the habits and standards of those about us, in order that we may do efficient work, makes us forget that there is a point where conformity ceases to be a virtue.” InspirationalMindMaySometimesOrderForgetVirtueHabitStandardsBoundsDetailsCeaseConformityEfficientConformMaking A LivingProfessional SuccessEfficient Work Author:Arthur Twining Hadley
“Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.” PassionWatchesHabitBattleJudgmentEverydayDetailsEveryday LifeSmall DetailsGreat Battle Author:John Lubbock
“I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.” WayRecordsHabitDetailsFocusedFreak Author:Balthazar Getty
“Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nearly-allied natural forms, they use this fact as an argument that all are descended from a common progenitor who was thus endowed; and consequently that all should be classed under the same species. The same argument may be applied with much force to the races of man.” MenShouldMayTwoFactsUseFormForceNaturalCommonRaceHabitTasteArgumentSpeciesDetailsAgreementDispositionNaturalistSmall DetailsNatural Forms Book:The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
“It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.” KnowsWayMovingSimplePayActingAttentionTalkingFrontsParticularPersonalityHabitWalkingShadowDressesDetailsCrowdsAppearanceStrangerPay AttentionSubtleFlatsGrayVagueOutlinesNoticingCaricaturesIntricacy Book:As Simple as Snow Source: As Simple as Snow