“Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.” ThinkingMindBodyRunningDifficultInterestingEffortHabitGloryTrainingExcitingSticksYour BodySessionHomeworkTediousInspirational RunningChanging Your MindBody Change Author:Jack Edmonds
“It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.” BookWholeLightSpiritEasyDifficultInterestingHabitCoffeeTeaPleasantSmokingExcessStimulusTobaccoChewingInteresting BookChewing Tobacco Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
“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.” IfsThinkingWritingMayLittlesHappensBitsLosesInterestingWrittenHabitCircumstancesReflectionIsolationAllowingConsolationDiariesMost InterestingDesolationMonologuesBeing MyselfEjaculation Author:Alice James
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.” WantLongWarUseInterestingEventsRevolutionHabitIncapableAccustomedFurAmerican RevolutionTolerableCherokee Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” PainHappinessArtistEvilInterestingTroubleStupidHabitTerribleIntellectualBoredomConsideringRefusalBad HabitsTreasonBanalityPendants Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“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.” IfsBelieveHumansWellsMayI CanSelfOpportunityInterestingClassSacrificeHuman NatureListeningHabitCircumstancesSickIntelligentInstanceFollyAttachmentHeroismVolumeFortitudeChamberMost InterestingResignationArdentGreat OpportunityDisinterestedAnne Elliot Author:Jane Austen