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“The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.”

Way Mind Humans Hard Seems Strong Easy Habit Patterns Human Mind Very Strong Easy Way Hard Way

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways.”

Way War Running Culture Deals Creative Habit Machines Mood These Days Nuclear War Aftermath Music Culture

Author:Kode9

“The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.”

Thinking Way Mind Humans Book Helping Use Brain Revolution Habit Clock Maps Human Mind Habits Of Mind

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things.”

Way Humans Different Shows Certain Individual Crazy Habit Treats Productions Different Things Organisms

Author:James Pearse Connelly

“Learning to savor the moment keeps us from living in constant worry and fear and tension over things that haven't happened yet and may never come to pass. Practicing yoga helps us to undo these bad mental habits and stress triggers that we often unknowingly pick up along the way.”

Way May Moments Helping Worry Happened Havens Habit Picks Yoga Stress Constant Tension Triggers Worry And Fear

Book:Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

Source: Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

“Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.”

Way Faces Turns Pay Attention Television Listening Habit Computer Contrary Fixed Routine Outlets Respectful Viewpoints Turn Off Down Time

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.”

Way Humans Pain Human Beings Pleasure Animal Objects Habit Activity Originals Instinct Educated Secure Immature

Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

“Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating-and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food issues in a language that is both liberating and comforting.”

Way Choices Language Attitude Compassion Teach Issues Communication Habit Healthy Eating Comforting Liberating Nonviolent Communication Healthy Eating Compassion For Others

Author:Judith Hanson Lasater

“Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.”

Way Art Sometimes Kids Law Parent Goal Crazy Habit Math Swimming Annoying Doomed Spouse In-laws Bad Habits

Author:Ian Bogost

“Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another.”

People Knows World Way Mean Children Use Age Purpose Force Poor Plans Birth Habit Do You Know Sole Poor People Old Habits

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.”

Way Firsts Kind Different Can Do Ability Seeing Awareness Judging Habit Mindfulness Ordinary Strategy Notes All Kinds Clarity Our Thoughts Lenses

Author:Mark Coleman

“The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.”

Way Powerful Habit Towns Asking Halls Slogans Arrested Shouting Asking Questions Congressman Counterproductive

Author:David Frum

“A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it's a big drag. But it's also the only way to kick the habit.”

Way Bigs Media Football Habit Limits Kicks Drag

Author:Steve Almond

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.”

Way Inspirational Humans Wisdom Running Lost Human Beings Habit Faster Ironic

Book:Love and will

Source: Love and will

“Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.”

Way Want Giving Persons Certain Actors Levels Habit Fame Brands Going Out Dressings Promoting

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.”

People Way Country America Moving Poor Habit One Way Consumption Poor Countries

Author:Gary Bauer

“Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.”

Men Way Life Individual Cities Moral Practice Failing Habit Faults Private Life

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.”

People Way Giving Kind God Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Understanding Habit All Kinds Generosity

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.”

Way Giving Habit Melancholy

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

“One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.”

Way Feels Winning Sports Trouble Habit Normal Losing Vices Factors

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.”

Way Religion Easy Atheism Habit Cynical Easy Way

Author:Peter Ustinov

“The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.”

World Way Humans Fighting Individual Military Fields Habit Battle Mathematics Strategy Arise Contact Agriculture Harvest Tactics Multiplicity Tactics And Strategy

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

“Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.”

Way Want Opportunity Habit Normal Priorities Transition New Habits New Normal Times Of Transition

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.”

Way Humans Long Fall Culture Possibility Changed Habit Physics Observation Range Staying Phenomenon Quantum Interfere Nasty Quantum Physics

Author:Julian Baggini

“Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.”

Way Long Enough Body Arms Habit Temperament Apes Provocative

Author:Frans de Waal

“The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work for GOD, since you can not work for God in other ways, and would not, & don't know how, or bend that way, from habit, & from talent in the use & signification & arrangement of the Word.”

Knows World Way Writing Use Hands Water Know How Clear Talent Habit Reflection Arrangements Can Not Paralyzed

Author:Jack Kerouac

“If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.”

People Ifs Way Long Real Kings Habit Real Life Council Long Way Gang Reducing Clearing Landslides

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.”

Way Long Fall Habit Creatures Cease Customs New Ways Schooling Usage Creatures Of Habit

Book:EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels & Science Fiction Classics (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Series, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Mucker Trilogy, Lost World Novels, Fantastic Stories, Historical Novels and more

Source: EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels & Science Fiction Classics (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Series, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Mucker Trilogy, Lost World Novels, Fantastic Stories, Historical Novels and more

“The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.”

Way Mind Seems Habit Granted Habits Of Mind Took For Granted

Book:The Woman Destroyed

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.”

Ifs Way Trying Habit Flesh Feeding Bad Habits Detrimental Good Habits

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.”

Way Asks Black White Habit Quiet Neat Bad Habits Noisy Stripes Sloppy Good Habits Happy Day Quiet Time Zebras Sad Day White Stripes

Author:Shel Silverstein

“Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing”

Ifs Knows Way Knowing Habit Understood

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.”

Way May Two Care Break Habit Safe Refuse Bored Indifference Wheels Two Ways Armor

Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.”

“It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.”

Source: As Simple as Snow

“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

Way Two Real Self Suffering Fall Fear Challenges Worry Habit Losing Tragedy Grieving Destructive Inner Strength Two Ways Self Destructive Losing Hope

Author:Dalai Lama

“I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.”

“Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.”

Way Writing Reason Seems Girl Names Habit Sentences Memoir Phrases Realms Shakes Teenage Grammar Request Teenage Girl Insert Slapping Coordinator

Author:Janette Rallison

“Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.”

Thinking Way Humans Body Felt Realizing Memories One Thing Habit Achievement Lows Killing Sorry Pity Manage Imperfect Way To Live One Thing At A Time I'm So Sorry

Author:Orson Scott Card

“At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.”

Thinking Way Cold Habit Honestly Working It Disappointed Rescue Castles Way Of Love Rescue Me

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.”

Way May Strong Habit Stronger

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”

Source: Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems

“Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.”

Ifs Way Long Bigs Past Alive Habit Intellectual Curiosity Usual Big Things Trails Insatiable Unafraid Ruts Incessantly Disintegration Intellectual Curiosity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.”

Thinking Way Used Common Habit Common Sense

Book:When You Reach Me

Source: When You Reach Me

“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

“If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Wells Reason Past Causes Air Youth Habit Speed Preserves Scenery Retard Years Of Life New Habits Change Of Scenery

Author:Thomas Mann