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“Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.”

Culture Fields Habit Activity Speech Habitual

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.”

Ifs Giving Hands Forget Habit Speech Excitement If I Could Lasting Never Forget Sincerity I Have Learned Bad Habits

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.”

Writing Use Habit Speech Preparing

Author:Dario Fo

“The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.”

Thinking Giving Helping Language Grows Tree Personality Bears Habit Speech Asking Distance Forests Reserves Exalted Inexorable Interchange

Book:The Song of the Lark

Source: The Song of the Lark

“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

“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.”

Important Different Feelings Space Break Plans Society Land Habit Travel Speech Important Things Reactions Landscape Village Formation Tourism Habitual Travel And Tourism Foreign Lands

Book:Five years

Source: Five years

“I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.”

People Thinking Giving Hate Teach Nice College Goes On Habit Creatures Speech Train Good Work Really Great Harvard Educator Hate Me Mcdonalds Work Habits They Hate Me

Author:Charlie Munger

“My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind”

People Life Mind Book Personality Habit Speech Combination Tolerate

Book:The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success

Source: The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success

“When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.”

Ifs Needs Fire Habit Conversation Speech Satisfaction Finished Breakfast

Book:The Pearl

Source: The Pearl

“(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.”