Habits Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“And there is something degraded and degrading about many of our habits of attention as we shop, gossip, argue, and ruminate our way to…

— Sam Harris

“WE END UP with the following situation: on the one hand, we have a news agenda dominated by reports of the workings of a…

— Alain de Botton

“Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.”

— Kristy Pellegrin

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most…

— Josh Radnor

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

Another effect of news articles is that the events, however frightening, can thus be consigned to the box of things that happen to other…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your…

— T.C. Boyle

“...the news should help us with mourning the twisted nature of man and reconciling us to the difficulty of being able to imagine perfection…

— Alain de Botton

“...the great theme of the private journal in the 20th century is sickness.”

— Alan Pauls

“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general…

— Ruth Ozeki