“A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits” MindWellsDoeReasonFeelingsSongMoralGreaterEffectsProduceHabitWarmStrikesConvinceBalladsAlterations Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“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.” MenWorldFirstsLooksChildrenEyeMotherPassionSpeakUnderstandingStepsWatchesStruggleStudyExampleSourceArmsHabitFirst TimePrejudiceMirrorsStrikesHis EyesCradleBack In TimeWrappingPower Of ThoughtUnclear Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.” NumbersPrinciplesHabitWeaponsDifficultyImpactStrikesEndlessOverwhelmingInterventionPrecisionPiousCombiningInvocationInterventionism Book:Statecraft Source: Statecraft
“The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.” WorldGivingArtSoulJobsPoetryForcePositionObjectsPoetHabitDuesStrikesInvisibleVisibleTragicUnusualGlue Author:Jean Cocteau
“We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.” KnowsHabitStrikesToneIntroducingPaleSensibilitySimile Author:Marcel Proust
“Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.” IfsFeelsTwoMightInterestHabitStrikesEmployeeEmployersAvoidedDisturbanceConsulting Book:A Will to Be Free Source: A Will to Be Free