"There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays……" — J. B. Priestley
"There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking."
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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint…
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give…
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few…
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
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We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to…
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The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the…
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger…
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
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