“I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.” FeelsMomentsMightActionMy OwnHabitCircumstancesResponsibleResponseReactionsThoughtfulAnnoyingPausesPausing Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.” WayWellsFactsFormChoicesHabitBehaviorAngerAngryReactionsInsaneInsanityBehaveFrustrationSevere Author:Wayne Dyer
“We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.” IfsWellsChildrenBookSometimesSeemsCausesArmsHabitSucceedDegreesExperimentsReactionsWell BeingVainOperationsContractsAnnoyingHostileSpoiledConsoleBegin AgainHummingPurringSpoiled Children Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.” ImportantDifferentFeelingsSpaceBreakPlansSocietyLandHabitTravelSpeechImportant ThingsReactionsLandscapeVillageFormationTourismHabitualTravel And TourismForeign Lands Book:Five years Source: Five years
“I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.” FirstsVirtueHabitPhilosophicalReactionsAnimosity Author:Primo Levi
“A keystone habit leads to other positive habits and disciplines. These positive traits start a chain reaction that produces other positive outcomes. The presence of these important habits help you become more faithful in other areas of your life. On the other hand, the absence of these key disciplines can impact you negatively.” ImportantHelpingHandsProduceKeysHabitDisciplineAreasImpactAbsenceReactionsChainsFaithfulOutcomesTraitsKeystonesChain ReactionsPositive Outcome Author:Craig Groeschel
“The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.” KnowsWorldFirstsPoliticalHabitComfortableAngerReactionsOriginality Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.” MeanWholeCertainSocialConsciousnessAttitudeInformationEmotionalProductsCommunicationIndustryHabitBehaviorIntellectualPatternsEntertainmentReactionsProducersConsumersLatterFalsehoodManipulateIrresistibleImmuneOutputSocial SystemsMeans Of CommunicationEmotional Reactions Author:Herbert Marcuse