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We must have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living – Christopher McCandless	added by Normando 1 year ago
One of the most striking( effects) is thinning of the gray matter of an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, it helps us to act appropriately. It gives us insight about ourselves and others. It gives us perspective. It allows us to do complex decision-making and to be able to have thoughtful, abstract reasoning rather than concrete or habitual responses. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He is what we call a true habitual, meaning he's gone to prison more than once before the commission of this offense. – Sean Teare	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I still have not been apologized to, i've just noticed her habitual behavior where she will say things and go mute and-or block things, and then not follow through with what she says. Again, that is hypocrisy and I don't tolerate it. – Chrissy Teigen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. – John Adams	added by Normando 3 years ago
While investigating this fatal traffic crash it was very clear to investigators that Mr. Ellis is one of the worst habitual repeat offenders of drunk driving we have seen, he has no regard for human life. – Franklin County Sheriffs Office SWAT	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.” – William James	added by meghalactica 5 years ago
The President’s marginalization of the vast expertise of the State Department and his habitual disparaging of our allies as demonstrated at the G7 Forum hinders a lasting, stable pathway to peace. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
North Korea has a long history of demanding concessions merely to negotiate, kim Jong Un is a murderous despot and habitual liar. – Tom Cotton	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Eating more when you stop smoking is partly due to an increased appetite, but behavioral and psychological factors may play a part too, for example eating instead of smoking in a habitual way, or comfort eating. – Deborah Lycett	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
New Jersey is one of the habitual offenders that ca n’t seem to or has n’t been able to come up with a lasting set of political and fiscal reforms that stick, new Jersey’s a state that has n’t really been able to reform New Jersey ways and continues to use one-shot deals. – William Glasgall	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The findings suggest an explanation of how, mechanistically, sugar may positively reinforce its habitual consumption in people experiencing chronic stress. – Kevin Laugero	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Geneva team has decided to allow time to understand what is happening. This precaution of momentarily suspending the trial is habitual and classic in all clinical trials. – The Geneva researchers	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play). – Michel Foucault	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. – Orison Swett Marden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading. – Coleridge	added by anonymous 12 years ago
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions. – Thomas Troward	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. – Orison Swett Marden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. – Eustace Budgell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. – William James	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We must have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living

– Christopher McCandless

added by Normando
1 year ago

One of the most striking( effects) is thinning of the gray matter of an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, it helps us to act appropriately. It gives us insight about ourselves and others. It gives us perspective. It allows us to do complex decision-making and to be able to have thoughtful, abstract reasoning rather than concrete or habitual responses.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He is what we call a true habitual, meaning he's gone to prison more than once before the commission of this offense.

– Sean Teare

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I still have not been apologized to, i've just noticed her habitual behavior where she will say things and go mute and-or block things, and then not follow through with what she says. Again, that is hypocrisy and I don't tolerate it.

– Chrissy Teigen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

– John Adams

added by Normando
3 years ago

While investigating this fatal traffic crash it was very clear to investigators that Mr. Ellis is one of the worst habitual repeat offenders of drunk driving we have seen, he has no regard for human life.

– Franklin County Sheriffs Office SWAT

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”

– William James

added by meghalactica
5 years ago

The President’s marginalization of the vast expertise of the State Department and his habitual disparaging of our allies as demonstrated at the G7 Forum hinders a lasting, stable pathway to peace.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

North Korea has a long history of demanding concessions merely to negotiate, kim Jong Un is a murderous despot and habitual liar.

– Tom Cotton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Eating more when you stop smoking is partly due to an increased appetite, but behavioral and psychological factors may play a part too, for example eating instead of smoking in a habitual way, or comfort eating.

– Deborah Lycett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

New Jersey is one of the habitual offenders that ca n’t seem to or has n’t been able to come up with a lasting set of political and fiscal reforms that stick, new Jersey’s a state that has n’t really been able to reform New Jersey ways and continues to use one-shot deals.

– William Glasgall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The findings suggest an explanation of how, mechanistically, sugar may positively reinforce its habitual consumption in people experiencing chronic stress.

– Kevin Laugero

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Geneva team has decided to allow time to understand what is happening. This precaution of momentarily suspending the trial is habitual and classic in all clinical trials.

– The Geneva researchers

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

– Michel Foucault

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

– Orison Swett Marden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

– Abraham Lincoln

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

– Coleridge

added by anonymous
12 years ago

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

– Thomas Troward

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

– Orison Swett Marden