“The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.” PeopleWorldFeelsWellsMayHomeCertainKnownPositionHabitFitComfortTasteMembersCapacityTraditionDefenseExpectedCoreConsistentStereotypeWell KnownAdapted Author:Walter Lippmann
“This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.” NamesQualityKnownExamplePrideHabitJudgmentMannersSelfishnessFashionableBreedingFlatteringConcealingGood BreedingDexterity Book:The Fable of the Bees Source: The Fable of the Bees
“The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantYearsLooksHardRunningActionBeliefEasyGoalKnownStepsAchieveHabitComfortableOvercomingTrackWhat You WantStatementsFamiliarDragNew YearBetter LifeSetbackBelief SystemsAchieving Your GoalsNew Habits Author:Bob Proctor
“In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.” MenWayHouseTermWealthPoorKnownLandFoodAmountHabitCookingStoresOne WayGuaranteesCulinaryWealthyEstatesMedievalPeppersPantryMedieval Times Author:Waverley Root
“I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.” MenMayLittlesDifferentAgeOrderFoundIndividualBusinessKnownHabitHighestAffairMiserableReachingConcentrationFriendlyRetirementBusiness SuccessDay To DayEmergenciesSummitSociableRetirement Age Author:B. C. Forbes
“My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth.” KnowsWantNextLosesKnownGoneCoupleHabitTeethMapleSyrupMaple Syrup Author:Rufus Wainwright
“When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners."” KnowsWellsDoneMotherKnownHabitMannersLunchProvokingWell KnownInvitedPlaywrightBernard Shaw Author:Anne Sebba
“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveAgeFallKnownMiddleKeysHabitTruth IsDiseaseNormalApproachMindfulnessWake UpEverydayPatternsFalling ApartMiddle AgesPortalMidlife Author:Christiane Northrup
“For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'” SaidBigsKnownMediaHabitBasketballMy FriendsMarkExcellenceThis DayPassion For Excellence Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own.” PeopleKnowsWorldHas BeensHandsLightRunningEarthUniverseGrowsLinesMy OwnSpaceViewsBrainKnownDarknessPsychologyFeetMankindHabitProveStupidityPhysicsBoundariesHolesLimitationFlatsConfusingStraight LinesFerrets Author:Jeanette Winterson
“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.” MenWantKindHas BeensCausesKnownVirtueYouthHabitGoodnessBe KindMisfortunesVirtuousCharitableUnkindness Book:Silent on the Moor Source: Silent on the Moor