Quotes About Automatic

The automatic mechanism then duplicates this successful response on future trials. It has "learned" how to respond successfully. It forgets its failures, and repeats the successful action without any further conscious thought—that is, as a habit.

Physical relaxation, when practiced daily, brings about an accompanying mental relaxation and a relaxed attitude that enables us to better consciously control our automatic mechanism. Physical relaxation also, in itself, has a powerful influence in dehypnotizing us from negative attitudes and reaction patterns.

But how enjoyable an activity is depends ultimately on its complexity. The small automatic games woven into the fabric of everyday life help reduce boredom, but add little to the positive quality of experience. For that one needs to face more demanding challenges, and use higher-level skills.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not...

Virtue, in this strict sense, is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices, requiring effort and concentration, to do something which is good and right but which doesn't "come naturally"—and then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required "automatically," as we say.

My hand found the kitchen light switch before I could remember that I might not know where it was.

a sense of certainty—that feeling of having complete faith . . . about your ability—that you can do something or that you know something . . . which allows you to bypass conscious thought—so well you don't have to think about it . . . and execute unconsciously—so you perform it automatically and instinctively.

It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can do anything to aid the realisation of your desire. You think that you can do something, you want to do something; but actually you can do nothing. The illusion of the free will to do is but ignorance of the law of assumption upon which all action is based. Everything happens automatically.

Your mind has what you might call an automatic search function, which means that when you ask yourself a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer. Psychologists have referred to this function of the human brain as the embedded presupposition factor.

Your mind has what you might call an automatic search function, which means that when you ask yourself a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer.

It's like a rule of life that yer automatically happier when you don't gotta worry about something.

The two of you are trespassing on private property. Get out before I call the cops," said Gary. "Yeah, right, because concerned citizens always open fire with automatic weapons first, then call the police.

Hot buttons or triggers are stored-up resentments, regrets, insecurities, anger, and fears that hurt when touched and cause automatic emotional responses. By identifying specific actions, words, or events that seem to trigger emotional reactions—either in you or in the BP in your life—these reactions may be easier to anticipate and manage.