Best habit & happens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?”

Ifs Ends Happens Literature Individual Style Personality Habit Lovers Clouds Checks Being True Streams Protest Perpetual Quotations Indulge Spontaneity Indulge In Insidious Good Literature

Book:Streaks of life

Source: Streaks of life

“If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.”

“Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.”

Humans Happens Interest Human Beings Habit Explorers Reacting Autopilot

Author:Bertrand Piccard

“When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.”

May Mean Facts Happens Order Evil Habit Arise Providence Consolation

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

“I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along.”

Thinking Ends Sometimes Might Happens Certain Watches Habit Unexpected Phases Saying No

Author:Doris Lessing

“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.”

“I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.”

Knows Ideas Happens Habit Shots Connections Suggestions Let It Go Bad Habits Suggesting Just Let It Go

Author:Bryan Cranston

“I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.”

“You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.”

Happens Hurt Accepting Habit Fit Angry Patterns Pessimism

Book:The War Between the Tates: A Novel

Source: The War Between the Tates: A Novel

“The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.”

Years Government Happens Three Habit Republican Election Election Years Bad Years

Author:Will Rogers

“Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.”

Mean Important Happens Habit Patterns Oneself Collectives Vigilance

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.”

Ifs Way May Happens Courses Events Design Habit Circumstances Eternal Repeats Peculiar Recurrence

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.”

Way Moments Happens Lost Meditation Habit Mindfulness Mercy Spending Spells Waking Our Thoughts Lost In Thought

Author:Sam Harris

“In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.”

Littles Doe Home Happens Easy Perfect Effort Plans Goes On Habit Discussion Irritation Bickering Perfect Peace Many Homes

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought

“Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them-it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!”

Happens Effort Watches Habit Acknowledge Accomplishment Consistently Affirmation Flattering Affirming

Author:Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

“My view is that our minds are incredibly powerful animals that are, during life, kept somewhat in check by the load of our bodies. Once that load is gone (or so some ancient texts teach us) the mind is like a horse off the tether. So the habits we get into here might have something to do with what happens to us afterwards. An exciting but harrowing idea, given the everyday state of my mind. But also hopeful, since that's something a person can work with.”

Mind Persons Ideas States Body Might Happens Given Animal Views Powerful Teach Gone Habit Exciting Horse Everyday Ancient Checks Hopeful Load Of My Mind

Author:George Saunders

“If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.”

Ifs Thinking Important Book Happens Lost Effort Habit Tasks

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.”

Long Sometimes Happens Habit Series Things Happen Expecting Disappointing Bad Habits Expecting More

Author:Joyce Meyer

“A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.”

Source: Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel

“...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.”

Littles Happens Sleep Break Goes On Habit Eating Performances Crisis Routine Washing Whatever Happens Break Through Life Goes On

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.”

Knows Life Shows Happens Differences Habit Pages Tales Fairy Princess Fairy Tale

Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)”

Ifs Needs Giving Happens Dies Fighting Opportunity Water Habit Plant Repeats Manifest Bad Habits

Book:Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Source: Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

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