Habits Of Mind Quotes

• Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

  Bertrand Russell

  Discipline, Mind, Willpower

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.26, Routledge

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• 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.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Successful, People

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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Attitude, Positivity

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• 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

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Order

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.

  Chris Cleave

  Mind, Habit, Dare

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• 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

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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• Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

  Sam Snead

  Swings, Practice, Mind

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• It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Issues, Imagination

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Judging, Mind, Habit

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

  John Dewey

  Future, Science, Mind

  John Dewey (1978). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.78, SIU Press

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• 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.

  John Dewey

  Education, Communication, Science

  John Dewey (1978). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.77, SIU Press

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• We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

  Larry Brooks

  Mind, Needs, Behavior

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• If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

  Plutarch

  Hate, Hatred, Mind

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• Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Thinking, Challenges

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive Thinking, Mind, Habit

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• The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

  Alan Greenspan

  Art, Skills, Ideas

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Average, Hug

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.308, Broadview Press

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• what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

  Erica Jong

  Time, Mind, Dresses

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Mind, Important, Gains

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• It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Mean, Knowing

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