Habits look not only backward but also forward . . .

"Habits look not only backward but also forward. . . . 'We may think
of habits as means, waiting, like tools in a box, to be used by
conscious resolve,' John Dewey wrote. 'But they are something more
than that. They are active means, means that project themselves,
energetic and dominating ways of acting.' Habits are living practice,
the site of creation and innovation."

. . . Hardt and Negri . . . Multitude . . . 197 . . .