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Quotes About Automatic

Because part of it is running on automatic. Hearing little whispers from far away.
~ Scott Nicholson
People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.
~ Keith Ablow
Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do.
~ Lenny Jacobson
That is the new miracle, and the greatest of all–Automatic Law!
~ Mark Twain
With repetition, a lot of mental functioning becomes automatic and effortless, as when you drive a car to work. Novel situations, however, usually require conscious thought and "workaround" solutions, which are slower to develop, more difficult to execute, and more prone to error.
~ Atul Gawande
self-deception as the preliminary to public deception is almost automatic. —WALTER LIPPMANN
~ Stephen Jay Gould
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
~ Marie Osmond
I had woken after a fitful few hours, struggling to shake off the tangled dreams that had woven themselves through my sleep, and stumbled down the corridor on automatic pilot, a caffeine-seeking zombie.
~ Jojo Moyes
The elephant, in contrast, is everything else. The elephant includes the gut feelings, visceral reactions, emotions, and intuitions that comprise much of the automatic system. The elephant and the rider each have their own intelligence, and when they work together well they enable the unique brilliance of human beings.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Intuition is the best word to describe the dozens or hundreds of rapid, effortless moral judgments and decisions that we all make every day.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Gathering, analyzing, sorting, and storing information—these functions and more the mind can perform so automatically, skillfully, and effortlessly that it makes the most sophisticated computer look like a plastic toy by comparison. But it can do infinitely more.
~ Benjamin Hoff
The power of Ayasdi is its unique ability to automatically discover insights - regardless of complexity - without asking questions.
~ Gurjeet Singh
When I get my script in hand, I make it a point to completely know my script well. It is something that comes automatically to me. That is my basic homework.
~ Koel Mallick
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
~ Graham Greene
The way that I work is I didn't go to drama school or anything like that so I have no choice but to be instinctual because I don't have a tool kit in the same way.
~ Esme Creed-Miles
Weißt du, mein Vater hat mir immer gesagt, verlieben geschieht automatisch. Gegen dieses plötzliche, alles ausfüllende Gefühl, das einen wie ein Blitz ereilt, ist man machtlos. ›Verlieben ist Zufall‹, sagte er immer. Aber Liebe …« Nele machte eine kurze Pause, in der die letzte Leuchte im Park ansprang und die Natur in ein schwefelgelbes Licht tauchte. »Liebe ist eine Entscheidung.
~ Sebastian Fitzek
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.
~ Sebastian Junger
This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.
~ Frederick Lenz
The other way to train medics is to have them practice a skill so many times that it becomes automatic. So when the prefrontal cortex goes AWOL, when reasoning drops away, muscle memory, one hopes, will persist.
~ Mary Roach
This is still faith in their rationality, in the omnipotence of reason. The mistake? Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.)
~ Ayn Rand
Reason is not automatic. Those that deny it cannot be conquered by it.
~ Ayn Rand
Since nature does not provide man with an automatic form of survival, since he has to support his life by his own effort, the doctrine that concern with one's own interests is evil means that man's desire to live is evil—that man's life, as such, is evil. No doctrine could be more evil than that.
~ Ayn Rand
It's my nature. I can't help it.
~ Steve Berry
As William James pointed out, humans are habit machines.
~ Steven Kotler