HabitH. Holt, 1890 - 68 Seiten |
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1'Der menschliche 50 cents accus acquired animals attention balls become body brain bundles of habits called centres know cerebrum chain conscious discharge ditions easily the movement Edcl emotions expression feeling fingers functional activity Green grows guiding sensations habit of excessive habitual action hand HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Henry Holt idea ideational centres impulse to keep infinitesimally small amount knitting learned Life's Ideals Longmans maxim mechanical Mental Physiology ments mode modified motor effects move muscles muscular contraction nerve-current nerve-substance nerves nervous event nervous system nervous tissue never nutrition occur once one's organ outset path perception performed period of growth philosophy of habit physi plasticity play possible practical Principles of Psychology prompted reflex arc result says secondarily automatic sort Spencer's spinal cord structure success tendency thing thought tion tissue train traversed unwonted line violin volition wave of rearrangement whole WILLIAM JAMES York
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Seite 65 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Seite 64 - So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
Seite 54 - Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
Seite 66 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the workingday, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
Seite 52 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and ' habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Seite 59 - character', as JS Mill says, 'is a completely fashioned will'; and a will, in the sense in which he means it, is an aggregate of tendencies to act in a firm and prompt and definite way upon all the principal emergencies of life. A tendency to act only becomes effectively ingrained in us in proportion to the uninterrupted frequency with which the actions actually occur, and the brain 'grows
Seite 59 - No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. And this is an obvious consequence of the principles we have laid down. A "character...
Seite 49 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of i ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein. It...
Seite 27 - But in him the number of them is so rn< >rmmis, that most of them must be the fruit of painful study. If practice did not make perfect, nor habit economize the expense of nervous and muscular energy, he would therefore be in a sorry plight.
Seite 28 - ... no progress could take place in development. A man might be occupied all day in dressing and undressing himself; the attitude of his body would absorb all his attention and energy; the washing of his hands or the fastening of a button would be as difficult to him on each occasion as to 'the child on its first trial; and he would, furthermore, be completely exhausted by his exertions.