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“I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.”

Persons Jobs Knowing Habit Likes

Author:Jane Lynch

“Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.”

Mind Heart Character Action Desire Knowing Psychology Habit Integrity Mindset Good Character Good Habits

Book:Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

“A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.”

Persons Made Desire Steps Knowing Conditions Materials Habit Gains Mere Satisfaction Dirt Good Will Dissatisfaction Cleanliness Old Habits

Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience

Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience

“Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.”

People Way Enough Force Heaven Knowing Fool Habit Reasoning Thoughtlessness

Author:Laurence Sterne

“I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.”

People Thinking Asks Knowing Trouble Listening Praying Habit Blessing Mindfulness Atheist Sirens Ambulance

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.”

War Feelings Faces Ability Creative Knowing Awareness Produce Habit Discipline Battle Understood Warrior Worthwhile Daring Considering Scope Exceed Transforming Astonishment

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. Consequently they possess us, rather than we them. They move us; they control us. Unless we become aware of what they accomplish, and pass judgment upon the worth of the result, we do not control them.”

Moving Results Knowing Habit Judgment Accomplish Imports

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”

Firsts Knowing Habit Tradition Cruelty Customs Enchantment

Book:In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

“When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.”

Knows Motivational Strong Power Know How Knowing Havens Habit Urges Wrong Things

Author:W. Clement Stone

“Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing”

Ifs Knows Way Knowing Habit Understood

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.”

Hands Lost Difficult Knowing Path Habit Everyday Vain Routine Lost Things

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!”

Knows World Looks Knowing Habit Rounds Pursue Vocation

Book:The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin