“One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.” HardSpiritHabitOneselfMidstCheerfulCheerfulnessHardnessHard Truths Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".” IfsArtFactsReadyBearsHabitMedicineFruitOneselfConclusionAcquireAffirmationInfallibleDeceptiveTreacherousGeneralizationHold Fast Author:Hippocrates
“I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.” MomentsEvilSawsGraceGrewHabitOneselfServing GodBrakeOld Habits Author:Saint Augustine
“I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.” IfsMenRunningDifficultTalkingHe ManHabitOneselfDetermineVicesContraryLengthPropriety Author:Giacomo Leopardi
“Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.” MeanImportantHappensHabitPatternsOneselfCollectivesVigilance Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.” StillsMatterProblemAbilityPracticeStudentsHabitConcernedMethodSilentOneselfInstructionSessionScholarshipDiscussingAttendingImportsScholarlyMemorizing Author:Ibn Khaldun
“I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set of rules, habits, systems, moving parts.” ThinkingLooksArtMovingAbilityPracticeArmsHabitOneselfRemoveLengthMoving Parts Author:Kehinde Wiley
“We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.” FeelsPersonsSoulPastGivenLossSecretIdentityHabitPhotographerOneselfDeedsStealingPrimitiveOur PastEmbarrassingRevealingPrivate Things Author:Dave Eggers
“A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.” HeartMeanStoriesBodyPastLostSocialSleepGraceFoolHabitOneselfLove StoryConsumingSullenSocial Graces Book:The English Patient Source: The English Patient