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«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
analyses, assumptions, conventional, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, evaluate, evaluated, examine, formation, formations, habitual, institutions, mould, participate, playing field, political institutions, re-examine, shake up
«Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin
(Educator)
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
cultivation, habitual, intensive, voluntary
«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.»
Author: Thomas Troward
| Keywords:
condition, conditions, corresponded, corresponds, gradually, habitual, mental, provided
«People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.»
«Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts»
«Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Desire,
Destiny,
Thought
| Keywords:
corresponded, corresponds, habitual
«There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
habitual, human being, indecision, miserable, no more
«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.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
acquisition, as many, automatic, decided, exception, habitual, initiative, launch, occur, rooted, securely