Habitual Quotes - Page 10

• Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

  Epictetus

  Practice, Ifs

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 18,

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• One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.

  Thomas Lickona

  Character, World, Patterns

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• It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Morning, Eye, Sky

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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• I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There's enough information on those subjects to keep a person studying forever.

  Bob Proctor

  Believe, Law, Hair

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• There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters , to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Character, Three, Action

  Samuel R. Delany (1968). “Nova”

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• A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Revolution, Sometimes

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

  Thomas Troward

  Happiness, Attitude, Desire

  Lawrence Allen Fowler, Thomas Troward (1995). “Theory of Creative Thought: Based on the Writings of Thomas Troward”

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• Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Self, Relax, Ease

  "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Happiness, Strong

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. V: Of mountain beauty”, p.328

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• When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

  Dalai Lama

  Humility, Reality, Deception

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.

  Bob Proctor

  Motivational, Moving, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 13, 2011

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• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.

  Ellen Lupton

  Design, Identity, Gliding

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.99, Chronicle Books

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• When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Self, Upset, Unity

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• We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Thinking, Personality, Patterns

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• Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Taste, Culinary

  "A Handbook of Gastronomy".

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• The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one starts a creative endeavor without a certain amount of fear; the key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun. When I feel that sense of dread, I try to make it as specific as possible.

  Twyla Tharp

  Keys, Two, Creative

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.

  Lester Levenson

  Self, Ego, Growth

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• Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.

  Laura Huxley

  Clothes, Ties, Shoes

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• What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

  Roy Davis

  Experience, Consciousness, States

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

  William James

  Life, Work, Hands

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.

  Brother Lawrence

  God, Teacher, Prayer

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• The Indwelling of Christ by faithis to have Jesus Christ continually in one’s eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a man actually does not always think of Christ; but as a man does not look up to the sun continually, yet he sees the light of it. So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Jesus, Eye, Men

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• The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly
  bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life,
  corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant mental attitude. Not what you think about once in a while
  when you are in church, or have just read a good book,
  BUT your predominant mental attitude is what counts.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Attitude, Book, Thinking

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

  William James

  Life, Success, Strong

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