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David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
If you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it.
Habit |
Frank Lloyd Wright, born Frank Lincoln Wright
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.
Challenge | Distinguish | Habit | Meaning | Mind | Nothing | Principles | Time | Ugly | Will | Learn | Old |
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
Creativity | Defeat | Habit | Originality |
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
There is a sphere where the enthusiasm of love is the calm habit of the soul, that without words, without the demonstrations of affection, heart beats to heart, soul answers soul, we respond to the Infinite Love, and we feel his answer in us, and there is no need of words.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things. Read not the times, read the eternities.
Hippocrates, fully known as Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos NULL
As to diseases, make a habit of two things: to help, or at least, do no harm.
That which is the result of habit affords no presumption of being intrinsically good.
Good | Habit | Presumption |
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The former is an act, the latter a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient; cheerfulness, fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Morality is made up of customs and habits. Custom makes public morality, and habit individual morality.
Custom | Habit | Individual | Morality | Public |