“As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.” WantMadeSaidFeelingsReadyHabitConstantExcellenceAweRelaxRelaxationAwe Inspiring Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.” IfsNeedsLittlesSaidLastsLyingEvilOur LivesHabitFindingsLongingSeekingRevelationsWoeLast WordsSeeking GodFinding God Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.” KnowsSaidMatterDoneUseChoicesKnow HowHabitColourSaid And Done Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.” NeedsSaidCommunityEconomyProgressMastersHabitToughUltimateInfiniteVictimSeriesConservativeObjectivesHouseholdCunningMiraculousThrustRansom Author:Richard M. Weaver
“Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)” MaySaidLanguageParentAnimalEvolutionHabitProductionsBranchesImperfectionStrictOffspringOwing Book:Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ... Source: Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...
“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsMeanSaidTwoUseLawThreeFatherTakenDoubtFiguresFieldsHabitAbuseObviousObservationSpeakersQuotationsToilRemarksWhen In DoubtWildeBernard ShawUse And Abuse Author:Nigel Rees