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“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.”

Way Purpose Artist Values Goal Creativity Habit Demand Achievement Expectations Resources Ultimate Manage Purity Mastery Continuity Validation Ultimate Goal

Author:Twyla Tharp

“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.”

Mind Wells Children Age Purpose Answers Five One Thing Objects Inspire Industry Habit Importance Twenties Prepared Active Observation Juvenile

Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

“The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”

People Reason Age Lying Purpose Asks Habit Add

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.”

Looks Purpose Habit Routine Void

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.”

“The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.”

Mind Has Beens States Political Purpose Force Social Theory Habit Prove Taxes Doctors Clubs Dues Spheres Revenue Living On Analogies Social Science Habits Of Mind

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.”

“We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.”

Knows Men May Different Dream Body Action Spirit Purpose Hours Plans Habit Pure Ideals Determine Noble Cherish Lofty

Author:Joshua Chamberlain

“I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless.”

Young Purpose Lines Arms Habit Meaningless Very Mean

Author:George Harrison

“A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.”

Purpose Evil Brother Duty Habit Regard Associates Drunkards Teetotalers Weaning

Book:Young India, 1924-1926

Source: Young India, 1924-1926

“Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.”

Self Age Past Purpose Challenges Self Esteem Habit Prejudice Familiar Esteem Cosmos Nerves Cosmic Fanaticism Scarcity Pseudoscience

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.”

Mind Purpose Plans Habit Method Busy Practicals Definite Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich

Book:Napoleon Hill Collection

Source: Napoleon Hill Collection

“In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Has Beens Purpose My Own Study Building Habit Approach Majors Solutions Program Clients Toilets Classicists

Author:Philip Johnson

“Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another.”

People Knows World Way Mean Children Use Age Purpose Force Poor Plans Birth Habit Do You Know Sole Poor People Old Habits

Author:Indira Gandhi