"Man is largely a creature of habit, and……" — G. Stanley Hall
"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
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G. Stanley Hall
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24 Quotes by G. Stanley Hall
G. Stanley Hall has 24 quotes on this site.
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The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and…
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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or…
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
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Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will…
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.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children…
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Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
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There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a…
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations…
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Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in…
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in…
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More Activities Quotes
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas…
— Gary Becker
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
— Arnold Bennett
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Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
— Vinoba Bhave
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is…
— Rachel Blanchard
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People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is…
— Andrea Bocelli
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An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional…
— Vince Cable
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