Best habit & effects Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.”

Mind Play Issues Effects Habit Sight Luck Affair Dues Invisible Aptitude

Author:James Vila Blake

“Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.”

“When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.”

Thinking World Reality Form Fantasy Effects Painting Expression Habit Painter Unprecedented

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.”

“A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits”

Mind Wells Doe Reason Feelings Song Moral Greater Effects Produce Habit Warm Strikes Convince Ballads Alterations

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“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

“How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.”

Thinking Knows Should Mind Persons Long Justice Effects Ought Habit Fairs Aids Administration Assistance Blunders Habits Of Mind Administration Of Justice

Author:Learned Hand

“Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe.”

Conditions Effects Habit Safe Rewards Paranormal Going Away Tested

Author:James Randi

“It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.”

Should Matter Moral Virtue Atheism Effects Policy Habit Intellectual Concern Concerned Positive Atheism Inevitable Discouraging Public Policy Instill

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.”

Giving Firsts Law Causes Differences Economy Effects Birth Habit Consequence Ultimate Institutions Series Investing Enormous Succession Converses

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art.”

Thinking Writing Art Moments Effects Habit Lifetime Crafts Sublime Astonishment

Book:Writing a Book That Makes a Difference

Source: Writing a Book That Makes a Difference

“It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.”

Mind Humans May Reading Pleasure Effort Novel Worst Effects Habit Mere Curiosity Excitement Human Mind Receiving Sensibility Habitual Exertion

Book:The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence.”

Feels May Views Acting Moral Teach Cases Effects Danger Ought Habit Difficulty Point Of View Selfishness Traveler Assured Anticipate

Author:Charles Darwin

“Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.”

Mind Responsibility Effects Serious Habit Sake Enjoyment Lasting Leisure Adequate Provision

Author:John Dewey

“I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.”

Ifs Thinking Way Hard Action Force Attention Effects Habit Empathy Scales Pushing Translate Good Way Cumulative

Author:Leslie Jamison

“For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.”

Giving Effects Habit Drug Shots Claims Instance Marijuana Narcotics Opiates

Book:Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”

Life Inspirational Belief Effects Habit Occasions Excess Moderation Exhilarating

Book:The Summing Up

Source: The Summing Up

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)

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