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“I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.”

Feels Moments Might Action My Own Habit Circumstances Responsible Response Reactions Thoughtful Annoying Pauses Pausing

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.”

Made Done Enough Used Lost Left Voice My Own Listening Habit Clean Holes Made It Damage Climbs Ignored Pencils Listening To Music Slipping Saturated Old Habits Vibrancy

Author:Gerard Way

“I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.”

Long Has Beens Chance My Own Fate Stupid Habit Victory Calling Revenge Arrogance Freak Thrones Despotism Bad Habits Interpreting Pretender Usurpers

Author:Yukio Mishima

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.”

People Men Book Running Games My Own Pleasure Company Habit Conversation Resources Innocent Tendencies Dry Sensible Instruction Bores Tire Pipe Opium Smokers Praiseworthy

Book:Collected Short Stories

Source: Collected Short Stories

“Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.”

Shows Song Humanity My Own Habit Singing Providing Closing Ukulele

Author:John Hodgman

“I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.”

“I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.”

World Eye Wanted Felt My Own Mines Theory Habit Authority Contemporary Urges New World Contemporary Life Classicism

Book:Dangerous corner

Source: Dangerous corner

“My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.”

Men Children Made Reason Belief Language My Own Quality Seeing Taught Habit Foundation Errors Abandon

Book:The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

Source: The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

“I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.”

Knows Writing Reading My Own Fiction Advice Habit Following Honestly Guise Reading Habits

Author:Kevin Keck

“It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. And growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day. And that's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"”

Want Needs Littles Sometimes Today Grows Growth My Own Habit Comfort Creatures Strive Yesterday Get Better Each Day Zone Ritual Reach Out Comfort Zone Norm Creatures Of Habit

Author:LaToya Jackson

“In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Has Beens Purpose My Own Study Building Habit Approach Majors Solutions Program Clients Toilets Classicists

Author:Philip Johnson

“I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow.”

Littles Sometimes Grows My Own Habit Comfort Creatures Zone Reach Out Comfort Zone Creatures Of Habit

Author:LaToya Jackson

“For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.”

Ifs Ends Helping Feelings Turns My Own Brain Habit Shock Entering Diaries Repose Undoing

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“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.”