“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.” WantLongWarUseInterestingEventsRevolutionHabitIncapableAccustomedFurAmerican RevolutionTolerableCherokee Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.” YearsWellsCharacterLightActionTimeViewsFiveRevolutionHabitRegardAppearanceMannersMotiveFive YearsPersonal AppearanceGradual Change Book:Waverley Novels Source: Waverley Novels
“Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.” CountryYoungRevolutionHabitDiseaseTownsObservationDozenModestyViciousAmerican RevolutionLegislatorsTaverns Author:John Adams
“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” PeopleFirstsHumansWellsHeartMayMeanIdeasSoulEndsCharacterFeelingsUsedSpiritChoicesJesusBeliefSocialChristRevolutionHabitRelationFundamentalsTendenciesLayersArrangementsHuman HeartOngoingPenetratePersonal RelationshipsSocial Relations Author:Dallas Willard
“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.” ThinkingWayMindHumansBookHelpingUseBrainRevolutionHabitClockMapsHuman MindHabits Of Mind Author:Nicholas G. Carr