We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Begin with the end in mind.
Always begin with the end in mind.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.
Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
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