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“Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.”

Needs Stuff Habit Yeah Radio Objectives Balanced Veteran Bad Habits Advocating

Author:Al Franken

“When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.”

Ifs Needs Littles Said Lasts Lying Evil Our Lives Habit Findings Longing Seeking Revelations Woe Last Words Seeking God Finding God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.”

Needs Said Community Economy Progress Masters Habit Tough Ultimate Infinite Victim Series Conservative Objectives Household Cunning Miraculous Thrust Ransom

Author:Richard M. Weaver

“To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations.”

Needs Ideas Able Law Term Loss Ability Cutting Risk Information Habit Flow Overcoming Edges Uncertainty Characteristics Probability Marketplace Traders Recommendations Ferrets Information Flow

Author:Ari Kiev

“This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to love Him! The best way to love Him in return is to open our hearts and let Him love us. Let Him draw close to us and feel Him close to us. This is really very difficult: letting ourselves be loved by Him. And that is perhaps what we need to ask today in the Mass: 'Lord, I want to love You, but teach me the difficult science, the difficult habit of letting myself be loved by You, to feel You close and feel Your tenderness ! May the Lord give us this grace.”

Way Want Needs Giving Feels Heart May Today Asks Difficult Sound Lord Teach Grace Love You Return Habit Letting Go Mass Draws Best Way God Love Tenderness Heresy God Loves Us I Want To Love You

Author:Pope Francis

“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.”

“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”

Needs Values Given Social Quality Groups Depends Habit Members Aim Social Life Socialization

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.”

Needs Firsts Humans Order Growth Rocks Habit Plant Soil Barren

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

“For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.”

People Needs Law Support Habit Good Habits

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.”

People Needs Feels Helping Creative Habit Drug Understood Help Me Pep

Author:Stan Lee

“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.”

World Needs Doe Real Beautiful Force Fear Realizing Imagination Painting Habit Bounds Ugly Dues Being Real Imaginary Projection Free Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. As you begin to practice this openness, you'll quickly discover adventure in the simple reality of a world that defies your expectations. More often than not, you'll discover that “adventure” is a decision after the fact-a way of deciphering an event or an experience that you can't quite explain.”

World Way Needs Firsts Facts Home Reality Simple Decision Secret Practice Events Adventure Habit Expectations Overcoming Openness Protective Unpredictability

Author:Rolf Potts

“I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.”

Needs Habit Clock Alarms Alarm Clocks

Book:Trick of the Eye: A Novel

Source: Trick of the Eye: A Novel

“You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.”

Needs Stills Parent Poor Habit Eating Active Need You I Need You Eating Habits

Author:Bob Harper

“The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.”

Needs Feels Firsts Objects Greatness Habit Higher Circumstances Comfort Activity Perception Lows Luxury Indifference Palaces Banquets

Book:Society and solitude

Source: Society and solitude

“The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.”

Needs Mind Humans May Age Lasts Differences Cases Habit Roots Busy Human Mind Contrast Observing Monotony Old Habits

Author:Maren Elwood

“You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.”

Ifs World Needs Writing Reading Pay Attention Pieces Habit News Wide Pay Attention Cake Reading Habits

Author:Terry Pratchett

“We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, were free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.”

Want Needs Use Form Decision Habit Extraordinary Decision Making Willpower Authentic Happiness

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.”

Source: Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy

“Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.”

Way Needs Littles Long Soul Ends Moments Dream Spirit Economy Habit Experience Sensitive Broads Waking Cheerful Our Dreams Daylight

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!”

Needs Desire Fall Politics Marriage Proud Habit Active Be Proud Sloth Fall Back Proud Of Me

Book:Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends

Source: Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends

“Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.”

Knows Men Needs Should Different Imagination Situation Psychology Brother Habit Men And Women Constitution Species Brothers And Sisters

Book:The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

“Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.”

Needs Prayer Habit Careful Cultivation

Author:F.B. Meyer

“We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.”

Needs Important Moving Energy Habit Resources Areas Climate Climate Change Burning Kicks Carbon Wrecks Drains Rainforest

Author:David Attenborough

“When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.”

Knows Needs Done Enough Motivation Habit Discipline

Author:Gary W. Keller

“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.”

Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.”

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.”

Needs Persons Said Numbers One Thing Heard Advice Willing Habit Conversation Contact Uncomfortable Resolve Success In Life Attempting

Author:Tim Ferriss

“If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.”

People Ifs Needs Helping Praying Habit Battle Losing Overcoming Guilt Intention Addiction Partners Stuck Temptation Get Better Cycles Persistent Good Intentions Bad Habits Praying For You

Author:Rick Warren

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.”

Source: The Karamazov Brothers

“Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.”

People Way Needs Pain Path Strange Habit Exercise Drug Alcohol Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.”

Needs Accepting Habit Degrees Perfection Tasks Bars Rely Realistic Assessment Procrastinating Triage

Author:John Perry

“Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.”

Needs Action Waiting Perfect Conditions Habit

Author:David J. Schwartz

“Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed”

Needs Reason Force Habit

Author:John Locke

“Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.”

Needs Habit Alternatives Bad Habits

Author:Martha Beck

“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mind Has Beens Made Stills Ideas Home Differences Secret Creativity Changed Habit Essentials Paper Distance Our Time Get Away Obscure Papers Home Home

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I like writing and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Writing Trying Stills Different Helping Pain Enjoy Acting Creative Habit Balance Painful Different Ways Help Me Vary

Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.”

Ifs Needs Habit Detrimental

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.”

Needs Habit Balls Luck Court Smell Tennis Tennis Balls

Author:Dominika Cibulkova

“I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.”

Thinking Want Needs Should Habit Lifetime Interfere Brandy

Book:The Churchill Wit

Source: The Churchill Wit

“Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being.”

Needs Should Enough Body Growth Development Habit Circumstances Controlled Flexible Physical Education

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.”

Ifs Needs War Reason Enough Animal Path Greater Habit Eating Pursue Secure Neighbour Eating Animals

Author:Socrates

“I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.”

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.”

“God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.”

Needs Giving Lying Voice Loses Silence Danger Listening Habit Comfort Essentials Acquire True Friend Resisting

Author:Francois Fenelon

“People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).”

People Needs Done Stuff Poor Habit Lists Contrast Good Work Work Habits

Author:Ray Dalio

“Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we all need to feel we are contributing. Others can be heard shouting new priorities on an hourly basis. Both habits are very demotivating.”

Needs Feels Mind Leader Written Heard Team Habit Bases Priorities Guidance Shouting Contributing

Author:Martin Zwilling

“If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.”

Ifs Needs Problem Jobs Next Asks Opportunity Interest Steps Team Industry Habit Members Seeking Employee Annoying Promotion Suggesting Follow Up Team Member Job Opportunities

Author:Martin Zwilling

“Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that meets people's needs. The Beyond Beef campaign is an important step in that direction.”

People Needs Important Steps Events Development Needed Habit Eating Campaigns Chains Links Beef Sustainable Development Eating Habits Chain Of Events

Author:Walden Bello