The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.