Your law may be perfect your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill and yet without individual acquaintance with men their haunts and habits the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult slow and expensive.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel that place seen once abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents its habits its breath its name.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

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.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

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

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.

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

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.

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.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

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

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

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.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

What appeals to me? There are things points of view uses of the language habits of dress ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation no matter what the future may hold.

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production resulting in mass migration refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

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.