Sentence examples for habits of thinking from inspiring English sources
People have come to the desert for centuries for just this reason, to shed habits of thinking.
The citizens of New Orleans were failed by government officials in thrall to foolish optimism and best-case scenarios; what fiction offers is the potential to confront such lazy habits of thinking with a relentless focus on complexity and nuance.
This means shocking futures in order to break down the old habits of thinking to explore new and open futures territory.
In a book containing suggestions for classroom experiments, Caldwell and Eikenberry (1926) stated that the objective of general science is to "develop a usable fund of interesting and worth-while knowledge about common things," and "to develop helpful and trustworthy habits of thinking about and of judging the common experiences which fall within the fields of science" (p. iv).
We are the ones creating all of it according to our habits of thinking.
On the other hand, those who would critique the "AIDS industry" and the vested interests and habits of thinking that surround the disease do--conspiracy theories aside--have a point.
"I think the Government has got into the habit of thinking that public spending is good in itself; also, the Government has not had its back to the wall like this before".
In speaking about the general features of the universe, ancient philosophers were inclined to think that all generic possibilities will be actualized, a habit of thinking called the principle of plenitude by Arthur O. Lovejoy (1936).
The Buddha in particular found that the habit of thinking is part of the trap we find ourselves in, and so he argued that we cannot think our way out of suffering.
