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Quotes About Formation

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
~ Unknown
it's not our experiences that form us but the ways in which we respond to them;
~ Pico Iyer
You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work, espe- cially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.
~ Plato
Stalactites and stalagmites.
~ Priscilla Shirer
The next time you stand on a beach at night, watching the moon's bright path across the water, and the conscious of the moon-drawn tides, remember that the moon itself may have been born of a great tidal wave of earthly substance, torn off into space. And remember if the moon was formed in this fashion, the event may have had much to do with shaping the ocean basins and the continents as we know them.
~ Rachel Carson
Monkey stalactites
~ Dean Koontz
Having returned from their nests in whatever lagoons, brown pelicans glided effortlessly in formation, eternally silent, while shrieking crows darted
~ Dean Koontz
Goal 5: That each child is able to form and grow a successful Christian family
~ Unknown
Usually, when I'm in the 3-5-2, it's at the end of the game, in the 80th minute, where I'm really just attacking.
~ DeAndre Yedlin
HISTORICAL TIDBIT: In English, the term INFORM is taken from the Latin IN + FORMA, which meant "to put into [a] form." The term INFORMATION appeared in English at about 1387 at which time it referred to "formation or moulding of the mind or character, training, instruction, or teaching; communication of instructive knowledge." Somewhere
~ Unknown
present-time Events are somehow being formed by the future, and the future is somehow looping back into present
~ Unknown
God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.
~ Isaac Newton
Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes.
~ Italo Calvino
Man can be defined as an animal that makes dogmas. As he piles doctrine on doctrine and conclusion on conclusion in the formation of some . . . philosophy or religion, he is . . . becoming more and more human. When
~ Dale Ahlquist
'Formation' and 'Lemonade' speak to experiences that are too under-represented in our culture. But there are costs to certain forms of visibility. I don't think it is a bad thing to discuss what these costs are.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
You can remember which one is which by thinking that stalactites cling tight to the ceiling, while stalagmites might rise up from the floor. Over time, the stalagmites and stalactites will meet and form a column, just like they did with old Cupid here.
~ Lori Wilde
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
~ Louis Althusser
An anti-racist person is on a life-long journey that includes forming new understanding of and ways to live her or his racial identity and then increasing commitment to and engagement in anti-racism actions
~ Unknown
Above them, a riot of stars formed horses and birds and magical creatures." Chapter 9 · Page 80 · Location 1434
~ Louise Penny
I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.
~ John Boyne
Our sun is less than halfway through its life. It formed 4.5 billion years ago, but it's got 6 billion more years before the fuel runs out. It
~ John Brockman
First we form habits, but then our habits form us. Change
~ John C. Maxwell
We are formed by what we desire
~ John Irving
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
~ Aristotle