"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

Habit, Habits, Learning, Thinking

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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."

William James, American Philosopher

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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

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"Laws are never as effective as habits."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."

Performance

"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."

Choice

"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."

Hope

"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."

Love

"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."

Books

"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

History

"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."

Friendship

"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

Nature

"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."

Freedom

"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

Beauty