“The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning capacity is limited. We can never feel as a jaguar, for example. We can imagine a man who believes or who intends to be a jaguar, but to intend is not the same as to be. We can have other ideologies, but we will continue restricted by the nature of our brain and of our body.” MenFeelsBelieveDifferentBodyPoliticalSocialBrainImagineExampleHabitCapacityIdeologyMannersPolitical SystemsTuningJaguars Author:Rodolfo Llinas
“I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.” MindI CanBoysImagineCollegeHabitIntelligentCynicalHabits Of MindGood College Author:H. L. Mencken
“A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge to do a better job of accepting my bad habits - to stop worrying about failing to be the person I used to imagine I could be.” YearsKindPersonsDifferentJobsUsedAcceptingWorryImagineFailingHabitYears AgoResolutionDifferent KindsNew YearPledgeBad HabitsBetter JobsStop WorryingNew Year's Resolutions Author:Mel White
“Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.” IfsYearsFirstsSaidUseImagineSeaMinutesFieldsHabitBedTrainPhonesAcceptedPrioritiesBagsGoing OutMobileBannedMassageOne MinuteMobile PhonesNorth Sea Author:Paolo Di Canio
“Delving deeper into character's motivations one thing I always find helpful is to imagine the person as a child, imagine them at a very early stage, prior to having all of the things taken away from them, or all of the habits put onto them that they end up having, and then going from there.” ChildrenMotivationTakenImagineHabitHelpful Author:Luke Kirby
“The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path.” MindPathImagineHabitCommittedHuman MindStatus QuoBad Habits Author:Roger Martin
“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.” WantImaginationExistenceTeacherImagineHabitSelfishChainsLive LifeImagine ThatInabilityCommonplaceEscapingClingingPeople Don't Change Author:Anne Sullivan Macy
“Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.” HandsDifficultSimpleSawsImagineHabitShotsPairs Author:Lee Trevino
“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.” MenBelieveGovernmentNationsDifficultSuccessfulWiseImagineImpossibleOughtHabitAffairServantBeing SuccessfulEnergeticBallots Author:Alexis de Tocqueville