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“Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.”

Men Reading Habit Essentials Slips Studious

Book:Wm. Osler: the continuing education

Source: Wm. Osler: the continuing education

“The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next”

People Mind Next Difficult Generations Habit Essentials Tradition Technique Experiments Characteristics Habits Of Mind

Book:The Scientific Outlook

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“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

“You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.”

States Body Fields Possibility Habit Essentials Infinite Physical Body Infinite Possibilities

Book:Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

Source: Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

“Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.”

Thinking Action Motivation Asks Pleasure Habit Essentials Consequence Ridiculous Objectives Amusement Pastime Idiotic Alertness Thinking Ahead Alertness Is

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.”

Inspirational Two Together Found Work Effort Habit Essentials Aim Factors Chiefs Concentration Definite

Author:David Frost

“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mind Has Beens Made Stills Ideas Home Differences Secret Creativity Changed Habit Essentials Paper Distance Our Time Get Away Obscure Papers Home Home

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.”

Needs Giving Lying Voice Loses Silence Danger Listening Habit Comfort Essentials Acquire True Friend Resisting

Author:Francois Fenelon

“A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.”

People Mind States Body Habit Essentials Labor Welfare Mind And Body Rigor

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.”

People World Wells Use Problem Lying Found Views Materials Habit Essentials Roots Selfish Manifest Consumption Raw Materials World View Selfish World

Author:Yehuda Levi

“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”

Happiness Loss Worst Regret Personality Habit Essentials

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray