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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment. -- Agnes Repplier
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress? -- Erica Jong
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. -- Lord Acton
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. -- Bertrand Russell
I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind. -- H. L. Mencken
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing. -- Philip Roth
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing. -- Jack Kornfield
I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out. -- Gloria Steinem
I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made. -- John Stuart Mill
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." ~ -- Norman Vincent Peale
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts. -- John Stuart Mill
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference. -- Lewis H. Lapham
No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them. -- Ibn Warraq
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next -- Bertrand Russell
How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change. -- Learned Hand
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness. -- Sydney, Lady Morgan
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise. -- George Orwell
The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial. -- John Carroll
Habits are a function of your subconscious mind. -- Marshall Sylver
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. -- Abigail Adams
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality. -- Bharati Mukherjee
Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future. -- Al Siebert
I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind. -- Dalai Lama
What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young? -- Saint John Chrysostom
Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state... -- Mary Martha Sherwood
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas. -- Alan Greenspan
I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character. -- Kurt Masur
We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become. -- Larry Brooks
Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult. -- Rupert Sheldrake
The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. -- Theo Rossi
Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered. -- Samuel Alito
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action. -- Thomas Lickona
Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information. -- William George Jordan
I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. -- Evelyn Waugh
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. -- Agatha Christie
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. -- George Saunders
Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind -- Thornton T. Munger
You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will. -- Adrian Rogers

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