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“It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.”

Ifs Knows Facts Feelings Eye Speak Talking Sea Reader Habit Pure Highest Wave Rage Checks Fixed His Eyes Etc Flood True Ones Remorseless

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.”

Men Mind Belief Habit Men And Women Average Fixed Conformity Hug Orthodoxy Outrage Spit Average Man Venom Habits Of Mind

Book:Black Oxen

Source: Black Oxen

“The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.”

Trying Whole Moving Law Change Habit Ideals Moving Forward Range Fixed Unconscious Idealism

Book:Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

Source: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

“Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.”

Reason Habit Fixed Good Habits

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

“I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.”

“Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.”

Habit Discipline Commitment Gains Absolutes Fixed Nonsense Absolute Freedom

Author:Richard J. Foster

“No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded.”

Men Mind Long Doe Mistake Habit Infinite Regard Arise Fixed Contradiction Finite Habits Of Mind

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.”

Wells Self Moving Brain Support Awareness Habit Self Awareness Fixed Unconscious Worn Pathways

Book:What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul

Source: What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul

“Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.”

People Reason Eye Ought Habit Fixed Disposition

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.”

Feels Wells Choices Decision Brain Break Judging Habit Conscious Function Response Fixed Decision Making Routine Take Time Worn Pathways Cerebral

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.”

Way Faces Turns Pay Attention Television Listening Habit Computer Contrary Fixed Routine Outlets Respectful Viewpoints Turn Off Down Time

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.”

Mind Has Beens Hard Difficult Principles Practice Habit Prejudice Errors Fixed Simplest

Author:Frances Wright