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“Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.”

Way Done Past Fighting Memories Situation Habit Easier Shapes Starting Territory Habitual Fresh Start Present Situation

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.”

Nations Novel Strange Habit Shapes Manners Disguise Apes

Book:The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited

Source: The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited

“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.”

Soul Certain Turns Simple Opinion Expression Development Habit Shapes Assuming Affection Impression Features Habitual Countenance Physiognomy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.”

Firsts Littles Moments Able Culture Individual Belief Born Community Birth Habit Activity Shapes Creatures Behavior Standards Patterns Customs Impossibility Accommodations

Author:Ruth Benedict

“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!”

Writing Inspiration Asks Heaven Hours Week Fronts Months Habit Shapes Notion Mood Staring Lapses

Author:Anne Bosworth Greene

“My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.”

Book Facts Answers Fiction Opinion Habit Shapes Messages Handle Steady Caution Objectivity

Author:Karen Traviss

“Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape; my voice is unpleasant; my mind is confused. - We are so caught up in this pointless, neurotic habit of criticism that we disparage others as well as ourselves. This is extremely damaging.”

Feels Mind Wells Body Voice Habit Shapes Speech Normal Criticism Caught Tendencies Confused Criticize Caught Up Neurotic Pointless Dissatisfied

Book:Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

Source: Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

“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

“Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.”

Thinking Kind Persons Shows Answers Habit Shapes Imports Right Answers

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within