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“In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.”

Long Stills Ends Pain Speak Hell Fire Habit Terrible Sorrow Overcoming Weight Variety This Life Flames Intensity Torment Sinking

Book:The Best of James Joyce

Source: The Best of James Joyce

“One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This is both efficacious and commendable, but it sometimes turns out to be a habit-forming drug. ... Things to which you look forward too long are almost invariably disappointing when you get them, and you might die first anyway.”

Firsts Looks Long Sometimes Might Pain Dies Turns Belief Economy Habit Drug Expectations Ease Cherish Disappointing Narcotics Better Days Commendable

Author:Marjorie Hillis

“The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.”

Pain Suffering Grief Habit Mismanagement

Author:W. H. Auden

“Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.”

Stills Important Care Pain Order Taken Habit Fit Responsible Management Contact Employee Executives Satisfying Indulge Indulge In Courteous Short Sighted

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."”

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“Highly competitive athletes like Ginny Gilder have a gift for tolerating pain and ignoring adversity. They accept these things as the price they pay for greatness. These habits of mind and body serve us well in many aspects of our lives, but not in all aspects of our lives. Course Correction is about taking time to heal and exploring the joy that lies beyond adversity.”

“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

“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 ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.”

Pain Goal Company Products Source Habit Creating Ultimate Solve Relief Association Users Ultimate Goal

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.”

Action Pain Pleasure Habit Degrees Perceive Users Avoiding Utility Avoiding Pain

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch.”

Pain Products Habit Users Alleviate

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.”

Way Humans Pain Human Beings Pleasure Animal Objects Habit Activity Originals Instinct Educated Secure Immature

Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

War Pain Remember Virtue Ought Habit Planning 4th Of July Carpe Diem Posterity Hereditary Vice And Virtue

Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Long Reason Pain Common Habit Raises Appearance Defense Common Sense Customs Vegan Superficial Formidable Tumult

Book:Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

Pain Happiness Artist Evil Interesting Trouble Stupid Habit Terrible Intellectual Boredom Considering Refusal Bad Habits Treason Banality Pendants

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.”

Source: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

“No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.”

Men Pain Wonder Habit Superficial Incessantly Impervious

Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

Want Inspiration Motivational Pain Motivation Positive Duty Habit Conflict Everyday Golden Golden Rule Without Pain Workplace Conflict

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations