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“We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones.”

Real Worry Risk Danger Possibility Building Pride Habit Concepts Mere Species Leaving Exposed Probability Real Ones Barricades Confounding

Book:Simplexity: the simple rules of a complex world

Source: Simplexity: the simple rules of a complex world

“If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.”

Ifs World Use Motivational Law Belief Goal Powerful Doubt Possibility This World Habit Realms Being The Best Most Powerful Disbelief Doing You Realm Of Possibility

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.”

Humans Stills Important Facts Use Human Beings Situation Progress Possibility Habit Method Acquire Continuing

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.”

Mind Firsts Kind Nature Realizing Accepting Steps Practice Doubt Possibility Ready Needed Habit Empty Originals Innocence Experts Emptiness Flash Inquiry Beginners

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.”

States Body Fields Possibility Habit Essentials Infinite Physical Body Infinite Possibilities

Book:Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

Source: Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

“Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.”

Thinking May Mean Form Reading Brain Technology Possibility Communication Habit Structure Available Online Communication Technology

Author:Margaret Atwood

“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

“The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.”

Mind Accepting Doubt Possibility Ready Habit Empty Experts Beginners

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.”

Way Humans Long Fall Culture Possibility Changed Habit Physics Observation Range Staying Phenomenon Quantum Interfere Nasty Quantum Physics

Author:Julian Baggini