“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!” WritingInspirationAsksHeavenHoursWeekFrontsMonthsHabitShapesNotionMoodStaringLapses Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.” IfsTryingChangeLike YouHabitStandingNotionMilkCowsDon't Change Author:Woody Guthrie
“Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.” SelfWholeHabitDeterminationNotionMythRemarkablePeculiarSelf DeterminationRail Author:Jasper Fforde
“Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.” GivingTryingMayImportantActionSufferingExistenceHabitImportant ThingsNotionContraryFearfulUncertainObserversTriflesUntrue Author:Carl Maria von Weber
“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.” IfsThinkingMenNeedsHumansHas BeensIdeasMatterEnoughFactsHonestWindHabitTradeNotionYesterdayAll TimeShopsGoodsWornVolunteerShelvesMatter Of FactBorrowingTradersPlatitudes Book:In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality
“Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.” ChallengesHabitEatingConnectionsAnd LoveNotionFolksEating HabitsReframingFood And Love Author:Kris Carr
“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.” PeopleKnowsMindWhiteKnow HowHabitConscienceCleanNotionGravesSnowSailCradleSnow WhiteHabits Of Mind Author:Barbara Kingsolver