The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. . . . From time immemorial war has been. . . the supremely thrilling excitement.
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education. . . they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.
You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Habits are happiness of a sort.
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.
I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.
Eternity is a constant learning process. It will be another grade, another step, a chance to do what we failed to do before and to learn what we failed to learn before. Thank God for eternity! We've all probably got a lot of bad habits to change and failures to make up for. Maybe God will give each of us a chance to meet people who we've wronged and straighten things out and tell them we're sorry.
The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
All habits gather by unseen degrees.
Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.
Liberty can change habits.
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?
Convention is another name for the habits of society.