Best habit & tendencies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.”

Natural Too Much Habit Mouths Lips Heavy Tendencies Nervous Acquire Smoking Cigar Curls Havana

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.”

“The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence that confirms our beliefs or decisions, and to ignore, dismiss, or forget evidence that is discrepant. That's why we are all inclined to stick to a hypothesis we believe in. Science is one way of forcing us, kicking and screaming if necessary, to modify our views.”

“My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.”

Ideas Natural Simple Habit Tendencies Spray

Author:Anne Lamott

“The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.”

People Humans Art Moral Influence Habit Taste Ignorant Innocent Tendencies Beneficial Refining Elevating

Author:James F. Cooper

“There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.”

Way Strong Situation Seeing Habit Lifetime Karma Tendencies Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.”

“the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.”

Desire Dangerous Habit Creatures Active Dues Flesh Lust Tendencies Temptation Flames Inaction Indolence Creatures Of Habit

Author:Sigrid Undset

“Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.”

May Play Shows Roles Progress Habit Obstacles Tendencies Unfortunate Imitation

Author:African Spir

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.”

People Men Book Running Games My Own Pleasure Company Habit Conversation Resources Innocent Tendencies Dry Sensible Instruction Bores Tire Pipe Opium Smokers Praiseworthy

Book:Collected Short Stories

Source: Collected Short Stories

“Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.”

Matter Habit Conversation Agree Tendencies Disagree

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.”

Mind Self Form Desire Teaching Habit Tendencies Destructive Starving Self Destructive New Habits Desire To Change

Book:Breaking Free Day by Day: A Year of Walking in Liberty

Source: Breaking Free Day by Day: A Year of Walking in Liberty

“One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.”

Political Moral Virtue Habit Tendencies Agendas Annoying Moral Virtues Political Agendas

Author:Robert Stacy McCain

“My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.”

People Ifs Way Actors Habit Terrible Directors Tendencies What If Good Habits

Author:David Mamet

“The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means”

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

Children Self Done Passion Evil Parent Subjects Crime Habit Prejudice Misery Parenting Tendencies Your Children Reasoning Patriotic Educate Self Control Abolish Crimes Of Passion

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.”

Facts Turns Force Habit Definitions Careful Tendencies Be Careful Translate Sheer Probability

Author:Fay Weldon

“Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.”

Thinking Way Want Character Seems Together Certain Interest Brain Habit Circumstances Bounds Tendencies Related Organized Dependent Traits Stable Bundles Glitches

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

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