“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.” IfsKnowsWorldTeachMankindHabitResourcesFaultsDrivenEmploymentMiserableBoredomGamblingDispositionHostilityAmusingGamingEnnui Author:Thomas Jefferson
“In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.” WayMindMadePhilosophyReadingStrongResultsCasesHabitPagesResearchDrivenSuitsMy WayOrganizedMetaphysics Author:Neal Stephenson
“We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.” KnowsLostMoralHabitGreedDrivenCompassMoral Compass Author:Sharon Gannon
“There are a variety of ways in which a wedge is driven between the reality of the world outside, the motion of atoms, and our conception of what is there. Some of it has to do with what we're told, some of it to do with sensibilities that might be described as cultural, some of it to do with habit, some to do with heuristics we, as Homo sapiens, invoke because we cannot do otherwise - to name just a few of the impediments.” WorldRealityHabitDrivenVarietySensibility Author:Zia Haider Rahman