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“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.”

Years Mean Hands Age Reading Stuff Lines Source Reader Habit Newspapers Traditional Plenty Rely Ipads Reading Habits

Author:Michael Wilbon

“Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.”

World Two Practice This World Source Habit Imitation Apprenticeship

Book:Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus

Source: Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus

“When youre doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do whats expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.”

Ifs Looks Next Chance Roles Source Habit Standing Expected Frozen Filling Take A Chance What You Love Resilient Standing There Doing What You Love

Author:Dick Costolo

“The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.”

Pain Goal Company Products Source Habit Creating Ultimate Solve Relief Association Users Ultimate Goal

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.”

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.”

Knows World Real Reading Source Habit Creating Disappointment Bitter Real World Providing Refuge Distress Delightful Unreal Human Bondage Bitter Disappointment Unreal World

Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)