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“If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.”

Source: Black Beauty

“The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.”

“It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.”

Ifs Thinking Given Impossible Expression Habit Bounds Permit Entertaining Wrong Words

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.”

Ifs Feels Two Might Interest Habit Strikes Employee Employers Avoided Disturbance Consulting

Book:A Will to Be Free

Source: A Will to Be Free

“Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter how strong your product-even if it easily fits into already established habits and anybody who tries it likes it immediately-you must still support it with a strong distribution plan.”

Ifs Trying Stills Matter Strong Support Plans Products Habit Fit Likes Superiors Distribution Monopoly Converses Differentiation

Author:Peter Thiel

“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

“I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and I know if I tried to write those books the way I wrote the stories it would take me years to finish.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Trying Years Firsts Book Stories Break Novel Couple Habit Take Me

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.”

People Ifs School Courses Attention Class Study Teacher Teaching Style College Habit High School Paid Locals Graduates Clown Sequence Harvard Selected Doctorates Gpa

Author:L. Todd Rose

“Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing as an artist. If you always have the same creative habits, how will you ever excel to the next level? The answer is, you won't. Taking those creative risks reaps the most incredible rewards.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Artist Next Lines Answers Levels Creative Clear Growing Risk Communication Habit Rewards Incredibles Crucial New Ideas Reap Next Level Lines Of Communication

Author:Wendy Starland

“I'd probably end up doing the same thing over and over. We're creatures of habit. We know what we know. With collaboration...and I'm not just talking about music, I'm talking about in life - if you're a good listener and you have your ears open, and to be a good collaborator you have to be able to listen, you can learn something from somebody else.”

Ifs Knows Ends Able Talking Habit Creatures Ears Collaboration Listeners Collaborators Good Listener Creatures Of Habit

Author:Dave Koz

“Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had a few minor mental breakdowns due to a what I felt like was a constant chipping away at my personhood (guys thinking I would have unprotected sex with them if they just paid me fifty more dollars, for instance) and a few abusive clients.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Guy Girl Sex Felt Habit Paid Constant Dollars Dues Instance Fifty Minors Clients Liquor Breakdown Drifting Abusive Personhood Chipping Away Mental Breakdown

Author:Marie Calloway

“If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.”

Ifs Form Perspective Habit Perception Patterns Status Quo

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Facts Goes On Habit Easier Late Training Tongue Singers Breathing Relaxation Lungs Bad Habits Easier Times

Author:Joan Baez

“When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.”

Ifs Trying Years Remember Results Effort Habit Behavior Twenties Patient Starting Thirty Forty Lasting Take Time Be Patient Trying To Change Old Habits

Author:Darren Hardy

“By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.”

Ifs Heart Self Hate Differences Emotional Habit Behavior Bother Just One Compass Drains Self Defeating Behavior

Author:Doc Childre

“If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.”

Ifs Causes Return Habit Discipline Traits Again And Again Alas Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That, "If it works for you it's going to work for me," and it's just a matter of figuring out what that habit would be, whether that's do it first thing in the morning, or start small, or do it for thirty days, or give yourself a cheat day.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Firsts Matter Bigs Would Be Morning Magic Habit Fit Solutions Size Myth Thirty Cheat Going To Work One Size Fits All

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Self Energy Habit Waste Roots Embrace Destructive Self Destructive

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.”

People Ifs Father Wife Dog Habit Commitment My Wife Blanket Puppy Slander Saying Thank You Puppy Dog Heidi

Author:Ted Cruz

“I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.”

Ifs Mind Doubt Habit Intellectual Extraordinary China Command Peasants Great Respect Mao

Author:Edgar Snow

“There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which they're going to do anyway, whether it's legal or not, or under the influence of drugs, which they're going to do more, if it's legal.”

People Ifs Influence Crime Habit Drug Connections Complexes Addiction Fuel Committing Crimes

Author:Kevin Sabet

“There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who killed. The one million people who died here were, to a certain extent, victims of their leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, who died in a plane crash before the genocide began. He contributed to all that. The man who took over from him was running around ordering people to kill. If this president came back and landed in my hands, I would have him arrested and tried. Unfortunately, he died a natural death.”

People Ifs Men Hands Running Certain President Natural Leader Millions Dangerous He Man Habit Died Victim Planes Genocide Crash Abyss Arrested Rwanda Plane Crashes Natural Death

Author:Paul Kagame

“Personally, I hate flossing. So this is the first discipline I quit when I am stressed. But if I stop this one important habit, then I might be tempted to cheat on my eating plan, stay up too late, or skip my Bible reading. If I stay faithful in doing something that I don't enjoy, I tend to believe that I'm disciplined. Therefore, I eat better, go to bed on time, and stay in God's Word.”

“Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.”

“As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get stuck in a rut. So, I like jumping between genres, and then taking a break and learning something new. I like feeling like I'm still learning.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Feelings Actors Break Habit Stuck Genre Something New Jumping Get Real Bad Habits Ruts Learning Something New Taking A Break Stuck In A Rut

Author:Brie Larson

“Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.”

People Ifs Knows Years Mean Long Ends Self Country Enough Running Able Realizing Decision Know How Taken Generations Goes On Habit Hundred Forgotten Initiative Away From You

Author:Chinua Achebe

“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

“Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Seems Life Is Realizing Middle Habit Empty Earning Shocked Middle Aged Earning A Living

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“If one develops good habits and routines, it is possible to be a responsible educator most of the time; and to marshal the special energies and reflection for those times, when the correct course of action is not clear, or when one is weighing one wrong against another wrong.”

Ifs Action Courses Energy Clear Special Habit Reflection Responsible Educator Weighing Good Habits

Author:Howard Gardner

“Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.”

Ifs World Strong Habit Ambition Originals Inaction Being Strong Stand Alone

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.”

Ifs Writing Broken Habit Cease Summing Up

Book:The Summing Up

Source: The Summing Up

“You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.”

Ifs Use Humor Funny Habit Eating Eleven Groceries Carts Eating Habits

Book:Ranting Again

Source: Ranting Again

“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Might Realizing Views Common Effort Steps Figures Habit Opposites Point Of View Curious Be Kind Worthwhile First Steps Open Minded Being Open Minded

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

Source: My American Journey

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.”

Ifs Three Ability Months Habit Three Months

Author:Sargent Shriver

“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”

Ifs Happiness Literature Alive Habit Walking Trails Insatiable Unafraid Ruts Incessantly

Book:A Backward Glance

Source: A Backward Glance

“There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.”

Ifs Long Book Today Dies Growing Habit Daughter My Friends Library My Daughter More Money Long Ago Amused Accountants Baffled

Author:Pete Hamill

“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.”

Ifs Stories Education Learning Habit Humorous Foundation Structure Wings Add Educational

Author:Albert Einstein

“I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Wells Book Reading Chance Written Share Fans Habit Healthy Skepticism I Want You Printed Chances Are Printed Word

Author:Stephen Colbert

“If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.”

People Ifs Way Long Real Kings Habit Real Life Council Long Way Gang Reducing Clearing Landslides

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.”

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”

“The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.”

“Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.”

Ifs Way Trying Habit Flesh Feeding Bad Habits Detrimental Good Habits

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”

People Ifs Form Hate Decision Enemy Heard Regret Habit Ears Wide Never Regret Loving Your Enemies

Author:Malcolm X

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”

Ifs Giving Kind Use Action Next Easy Virtue Habit Devil Angel Fairs Assuming Monsters Tonight Customs Stamps Refrain Abstinence Easiness Hamlet Love

Author:William Shakespeare

“...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.”

Ifs Body Lying Night Next Habit Heavy Familiar Breathing Pet Friendly Reassurance Affront Necessary Things

Book:Jazz

Source: Jazz

“She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.”

Ifs Knows Children Joy Fall Strong Fear Hurt Accepting Taken Happened Position Materials Habit Laughter Welcome Joyful Toms Inadequate Citadels

Author:John Steinbeck

“If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!”

Ifs Inspirational Business Habit Basketball Quitting Nba Never Quit Basketball Player Inspirational Basketball Basketball Motivation Basketball Teamwork Basketball Winning

Author:Michael Jordan

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