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“The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.”

Thinking Humans Life Is Goal Steps Greater Greatness Keys Habit Roots Leap Small Steps

Author:Robert Genn

“The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.”

“Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.”

Mind Habit Roots Individuality Habits Of Mind

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.”

Needs Mind Humans May Age Lasts Differences Cases Habit Roots Busy Human Mind Contrast Observing Monotony Old Habits

Author:Maren Elwood

“The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.”

Mind Found Modern Century Grew Habit Enlightenment Roots Institutions West Rome Jerusalem Athens Habits Of Mind

Book:Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

“This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.”

People World Wells Use Problem Lying Found Views Materials Habit Essentials Roots Selfish Manifest Consumption Raw Materials World View Selfish World

Author:Yehuda Levi

“It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of our troubles - wrong habits of eating and drinking - we rush to the medicine shelf and smother our uncomfortable and distressing symptoms under an avalanche of pills, potions and palliatives.”

Should Seems Given Causes Trouble Habit Eating Roots Medicine Drinking Medical Uncomfortable Consideration Disability Shelves Symptoms Pills Distressing Avalanches Eating And Drinking

Author:Lester Roloff

“It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Self Energy Habit Waste Roots Embrace Destructive Self Destructive

Author:Jillian Hervey

“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”

People Men Needs Hands Past Brain Break Bears Habit Gun Roots Machines Blind Ice Tigers Allegiance Very Deep Machine Guns

Author:Loren Eiseley