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Habit
«The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.»
«Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.»
«Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Action,
Character,
Habit,
Thinking
| Keywords:
fixes, lead on
«We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Excellence,
Habit
| Keywords:
excellence, habit, repeatedly
«Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Childhood,
Cruelty,
Habit,
Instinct,
Memory,
Men,
Youth
| Keywords:
attributed, extract, inherited, shown, thoughtlessness
«The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Habit
| Keywords:
a thousand, bright, bright side, event, habit, pounded, pounding, pounds, year
«Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;»