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“A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.”

Has Beens Different Self Past Habit Impression Enthusiasm Former Instant Intensity Fades Sensibility Vivid Stimulus Momentary Drunkards Insignificance Times Past

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.”

“A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.”

Want Giving Different Self Helping Pleasure Greater Habit Healthy Treats Rewards Self Control Justified Vitality Indulgence Boost Healthy Habits Small Pleasures

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.”

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“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)

“I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.”

People World Different Matter School Past Culture Gone Groups Habit Prison Corporations Paradigm

Author:Bob Proctor

“Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.”

Knows Men Needs Should Different Imagination Situation Psychology Brother Habit Men And Women Constitution Species Brothers And Sisters

Book:The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

“I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.”

“We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.”

Knows Men May Different Dream Body Action Spirit Purpose Hours Plans Habit Pure Ideals Determine Noble Cherish Lofty

Author:Joshua Chamberlain

“One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Wells Kind Different Character Habit Sells Scripts Available Block Scenarios Screenwriters Imposition Different Roads

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.”

Ifs Different Whole Plans Habit Exercise Tasks Get Up

Author:Brian Tracy

“The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning capacity is limited. We can never feel as a jaguar, for example. We can imagine a man who believes or who intends to be a jaguar, but to intend is not the same as to be. We can have other ideologies, but we will continue restricted by the nature of our brain and of our body.”

Men Feels Believe Different Body Political Social Brain Imagine Example Habit Capacity Ideology Manners Political Systems Tuning Jaguars

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.”

People Want Different Song Habit Labels Genre Nasty

Author:SZA

“So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'"”

Different War Together Stars Term Influence Habit Architecture Drawing Aliens Different Things Sci Fi Construction Runners Blades Asian Brazil Blade Runner Sci Fi Movie

Author:Len Wiseman

“The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.”

Important Different Feelings Space Break Plans Society Land Habit Travel Speech Important Things Reactions Landscape Village Formation Tourism Habitual Travel And Tourism Foreign Lands

Book:Five years

Source: Five years

“I like writing and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Writing Trying Stills Different Helping Pain Enjoy Acting Creative Habit Balance Painful Different Ways Help Me Vary

Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.”

World Should Different Understanding Teaching Habit Characteristics Who We Are Primitive Different Peoples Geography Describing Sympathetic Geography And History

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge to do a better job of accepting my bad habits - to stop worrying about failing to be the person I used to imagine I could be.”

Years Kind Persons Different Jobs Used Accepting Worry Imagine Failing Habit Years Ago Resolution Different Kinds New Year Pledge Bad Habits Better Jobs Stop Worrying New Year's Resolutions

Author:Mel White

“This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.”

Mean Different Ends Self Matter Artist Passion Our Lives Pride Habit Appearance Contrary Practicals Impression Operations Engaged Labour Communion Terminology

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained

“My wife would say my worst habit is that I'm not good at dropping subjects. If something bothers me, I'll bring it up endlessly and relentlessly. I think it's a search for clarity, but she uses different words.”

Ifs Thinking Different Use Wife Worst Subjects Habit My Wife Clarity Bother Dropping

Author:Paul Reiser

“We have this unfortunate habit in the United States of dividing terrorism into different categories. External, foreign terrorism, which manifests itself overseas or in the United States, or domestic terrorism.”

Different States United United States Habit Terrorism Categories Unfortunate Dividing

Author:Malcolm Wrightson Nance

“I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things.”

Way Humans Different Shows Certain Individual Crazy Habit Treats Productions Different Things Organisms

Author:James Pearse Connelly

“It's much easier to put yourself out there under the guise of a character. You get a different name, different habits, different words. When I have to just be Nathan, that's when I feel vulnerable.”

Feels Different Character Names Habit Easier Vulnerable Guise Different Names Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Nathan Parsons

“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.”

Humans Different Action Form Human Beings Dog Habit Concerned Horse Association

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“To me Arthur and James Bond aren't the same because they both drink. So I would kind of equate it to that. They're different guys who both have a similar habit. To me they're very different guys though.”

Kind Different Guy Habit Drink Arthur Different Guys

Author:Seth Rogen

“Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.”

Way Firsts Kind Different Can Do Ability Seeing Awareness Judging Habit Mindfulness Ordinary Strategy Notes All Kinds Clarity Our Thoughts Lenses

Author:Mark Coleman

“Russia could be, in fact, it would have to be a different Russia, but it could be a splendid ally. I will say this for the Russians: on their - in their favor, they have the intellectual capacity and the habits of mind to act in the world on a strategic scale, and were they do to so in service of a better cause than their current set of grievances, they would be a natural partner.”

World Mind Different Facts Would Be Causes Natural Habit Intellectual Capacity Currents Partners Favors Scales Russia Allies Splendid Strategic Grievance Habits Of Mind

Author:Daniel Fried

“The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.”

“I'm not afraid to express the different elements of my personality, and I think there's a bad habit in America now to, label people having multiple personalities, things like this, but it's, I feel like, even on the album I describe myself as a hydra which is, many heads, many different personalities.I don't think you need to be one specific person when you can be many.”

People Thinking Different Personality Habit Not Afraid Multiple Bad Habits Multiple Personalities

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the tuning, it's a completely different note. That excites me. That's why I had the ukulele around in the first place, years ago. It was to just break out of habits.”

Thinking Different Break Habit

Author:Jherek Bischoff

“Through my life and my experience, I believe getting "positive mental attitude" is true. Your brain has certain pathways in it, and if you feed those pathways with certain types of thoughts, the blood goes to those neurons and nourishes them, and they grow and develop. That's how you build habits. Physically, I think that's how your brain works. If you have certain habits that are negative and causing you problems that you want to change them, you can actually change the blood flow and stuff in your brain by thinking a different way.”

Thinking Believe Different Problem I Believe Brain Attitude Habit Negative Mental Attitude

Author:John Porcellino

“Generally a good parameter for me is to try something I haven't done before either in the writing or recording process, to break old patterns and habits. Even if I eventually return to something similar, I'll have gotten there from a different starting point and engaged in a different process.”

Writing Trying Different Done Break Habit

Author:Laurel Halo

“The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both have in common is their momentum - once winners' or losers' habits and culture take hold, they tend to perpetuate themselves.”

People Different Culture Winning Common Habit Behavior Losing

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“We passed law that encouraged consumption through different purchasing habits like, you know, hybrid vehicles. You buy hybrid, you get a tax credit. We've encouraged the spread of ethanol as an alternative to crude oil. We have asked for Congress to pass regulatory relief so we can build more refineries to increase the supply of gasoline, hopefully taking the pressure off of price. And so the strategy is to recognize that dependency upon crude oil, in a global market, affects us economically here at home. And, therefore, we need to diversify away as quickly as possible.”

Different Home Like You Habit Taxes Strategy Spread Hopefully Vehicle Crude Hybrid

Author:George W. Bush

“There is a comfort with design that may be a detail, rather than a building; comfort with form that is time-released and never finished. How do you represent an instruction set that will play out in time? There may be slightly different kinds of documents for representing those forms, and different skills for advocating change outside of our fee-for-service habits.”

Kind Different Design Building Habit Comfort Different Kinds

Author:Keller Easterling

“When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.”

Writing Important Different Done Song Fall Creative Strange Habit Familiar Convincing

Author:Nick Cave

“When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.”

Thinking Different Beautiful Choices Habit Losing Young Women Gorgeous Bad Habits Really Beautiful

Author:Barbara Hamby

“Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.”

Different Habit Assumption Lazy Spotlight Hue

Author:Julian Baggini

“Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.”

People Feels Should Mind Littles Persons Made Ideas Different Mother Father Speak Water Fire Five Too Much Habit Elements Woods Guilty Temper Cigarette Bent Different Directions Bad Temper Auntie

Author:Amy Tan