Even people who aren't geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.