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“Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.”

Believe Children Important Ideas Taught Habit Don't Believe

Author:Jasper Johns

“My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.”

Writing Inspiration Father Waiting Taught Habit

Author:Anne Lamott

“If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.”

People Ifs Littles Ideas Individual Nations Effort Economy Taught Habit Mass Thrift Domestic Life

Author:Julia McNair Wright

“Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.”

Way Humans Children Has Beens Able Taught Habit Creatures Normal Acquire Psychologist Taught Us Motion Pictures Retarded Slow Motion

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.”

Looks Common Study Journey Taught Habit Destructive Bible Study Common Denominator Breaking Free

Book:So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

Source: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

“My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.”

Way Inspiration Certain Decision Taught Habit Dad Honor My Dad Debt Lofty

Author:Anne Lamott

“People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.”

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.”

Men Children Made Reason Belief Language My Own Quality Seeing Taught Habit Foundation Errors Abandon

Book:The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

Source: The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

“We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs.”

“We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.”

Choices Issues Environment Taught Habit Draws Blame Luck Surround Genes Health Issues Daily Habits

Author:Kris Carr