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“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”

Character Feelings Action Influence Effects Example Habit Exercise Accounts Constant Contact Permanent Unconscious Imitation Impressive Alterations Approximation Impressionable

Book:Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

“The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.”

May Long Hours Position Habit Income Permanent Subordinates Long Hours

Book:The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

“Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.”

Character Results Virtue Habit Permanent Establishment Virtuous Formation

Book:On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man

Source: On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man

“Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.”

Wells Children Long Real Self Lines Views Achieve Danger Possibility Habit Discipline Safe Transformation Permanent Firm Internals Lasting Excess Self Discipline Frustrating Recalcitrant

Author:Mary Blakely

“Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.”

Enough Joy Causes Habit Addiction Permanent Exposure

Book:Stand on Zanzibar

Source: Stand on Zanzibar

“Since your outcomes are all a result of your moment-to-moment choices, you have incredible power to change your life by changing those choices. Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits, where practice makes them permanent.”

Moments Action Choices Results Steps Practice Habit Shapes Incredibles Permanent Outcomes Changing Your Life Your Mom Power To Change

Book:The Compound Effect

Source: The Compound Effect