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About the Habits of Mind

A Habit of Mind means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies, dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties. It means getting into the habit of behaving intelligently when you DON'T know the answer.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
 Rene Descartes
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles J. Givens Businessman, and Author
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
 Alex Noble, philosopher
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
Habit is ten times nature.
Duke of Wellington
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman ruler
The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.
Albert Schweitzer, M. D.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.
Horace Walpole, Lord Orford
Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
-Dr. Maxwell Maltz, author
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
Blaise Pascal
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
Benjamin Franklin
Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.
Stephen Covey, author
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
Gilbert Highet, educator and author
Education is what survives when what was learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes,
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than events.
Vince Lombardi
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.
Anil Ambani, Indian businessman
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson,
You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.
John Dewey (How we Think, 1933)
One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
Abe Lemmons, former college basketball coach
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
Patience – it defers gratification instead of seeking instant results. Sustainable Leadership is patient and persevering. Sustainable school improvement depends on habits of mind that are not impatient for rapid results.
Hargreaves, A. & Fink, D. (2006). Sustainable leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.- p.259
Intelligence is the habit of persistently trying to understand things and make them function better. Intelligence is working to figure things out, varying strategies until a workable solution is found. Intelligence is knowing what one does (and doesn’t) know, seeking information and organizing that information so that it makes sense and can be remembered. In short, one’s intelligence is the sum of one’ habits of mind.
Lauren Resnick
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James American psychologist and philosopher
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