 | 1919 - 682 pages
...finally, with sufficient practice, do it semimcchanically or with hardly any consciousness at all. Our nervous systems have grown to the way in which...coat, once creased or folded, tends to fall forever afterward into the same identical folds." It is a curious fact that the more educated one is the more... | |
 | Edward Boyd Barrett - 1919 - 272 pages
...motivation tracks.2 Will and intellect can thus form habits, and in addition, as Dr. Carpenter writes, "our nervous systems have grown to the way in which...paper or a coat, once creased or folded, tends to fall for ever afterwards into the same identical fold." As we go on in life, we grow more and more like... | |
 | James Huff McCurdy - 1924 - 254 pages
...physical basis of the will and intellect that is grooved by what we call habit. As Dr. Carpenter says: 'Our nervous systems have grown to the way in which...coat once creased or folded, tends to fall forever afterward into the same identical fold.' "1 Character and physical efficiency are related. Health means... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Health - 1915 - 412 pages
...his fellows. " Our nervous systems grow to the way in which they have been exercised," says James, " just as a sheet of paper or a coat, once creased or...forever afterwards into the same identical folds." Growing demand for pasteurized milk The following encouraging report comes in from Sanitary Supervisor... | |
 | 1928 - 1958 pages
...correctly or incorrectly — the tendency of the nervous system is to respond in that same way again. ''Our nervous systems have grown to the way in which they have been exercised, just as a coat, once creased or folded, tends to fall forever in the same identical folds." 5 2 47 3 1 6 8 9... | |
 | 1915 - 708 pages
...his fellows. " Our nervous systems grow to the way in which they have been exercised," says James, " just as a sheet of paper or a coat, once creased or...forever afterwards into the same identical folds." Growing demand for pasteurized milk The following encouraging report comes in from Sanitary Supervisor... | |
 | William James - 2001 - 178 pages
...or with hardly any consciousness at all. Our nervous systems have (in Dr. Carpenter's words) groi>'n to the way in which they have been exercised, just...coat, once creased or folded, tends to fall forever afterward into the same identical folds. Habit is thus a second nature, or rather, as the Duke of Wellington... | |
 | Thomas J. Cottle - 2004 - 316 pages
...regarding her intelligences. A Dr. Carpenter, cited in a volume written by EF Bartholomew, states that "our nervous systems have grown to the way in which they have been exercised."4 Habit, in other words, reflects the manner in which we relate to or manage our intelligences,... | |
 | 1910 - 454 pages
...of the nerves and the reproduction of phenomena. " Our nervous systems," observes Dr. Carpenter, " have grown to the way in which they have been exercised,...creased or folded tends to fall forever afterwards in the same identical folds." The repetition of an act is the condition, not the cause of habit ; it... | |
 | William James - 2008 - 152 pages
...or with hardly any consciousness at all. Our nervous systems have (in Dr. Carpenter's words) _grown_ to the way in which they have been exercised, just...coat, once creased or folded, tends to fall forever afterward into the same identical folds. Habit is thus a second nature, or rather, as the Duke of Wellington... | |
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Our nervous systems have (in Dr. Carpenter's words) grown to the way in which they have been exercised, just as a sheet of paper or a coat, once creased or folded, tends to fall forever afterward into the same identical folds. 
