Concentration is a habit of mind.

专心是心灵的一种习惯。

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It's such a habit of mind for me, I do it even in my social life.

这是我思维的习惯，在社会生活中我也是这样。

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But once we decide that we're powerless, our passivity becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, a habit of mind that's harder and harder to shake.

但是一旦我们认定自己无能为力，我们的消极被动就成为了一个自动实现的预言，一个越来越难撼动的思考习惯。

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More than a habit of mind, this optimism sprang from deep confidence in the power and future of American ideals.

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Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens are in the new vanguard of authors articulating atheism (Mr Harris thinks that people who are more moderate in their religion still do harm through a religious habit of mind that is no less irrational than fundamentalism).

ECONOMIST: Don't mention God

The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day.

FORBES: 750 Words: A quiet place to think