Quotes About Habituation

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.

It is probably difficult for the average person to imagine becoming accustomed to a yacht, servants, and limousines, but consider how you would feel if you could never take a hot shower again. Many people in wealthier nations have become used to this pleasure and actually think of it as a necessity. Actually, a hot shower is clearly a luxury, especially when we consider that most of the world's population has never experienced such a pleasure.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

Familiarity breeds liking.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions;[69] we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit;

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; "these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions";50 we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit:

Po jakim? czasie cz?owiek przyzwyczaja si?, zapomina i nawet nie czuje, ?e zimno, bo zapomnia?, co to jest ciep?o.

Even the most startling adventure, sooner or later, must become routine.

There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

No hay situación a la que el hombre no se acostumbre, especialmente si todos los que le rodean la soportan como él.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot accustom himself, especially if he sees that every one around him lives in the same way.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I've been in pain for so long now I'm just used to it.

It's amazing what human beings get accustomed to—how quickly the bizarre, the absurd and the perverse can become routine. People have become accustomed to torture, or so I've read, bonded with their tormentors, the wielders of pliers and electricity. It happens gradually. Maybe one day you get high with another couple and there's a certain amount of joking and talk, and the next thing you know, the guy's making out with your wife and you're kind

Il était comme ces moines qui sont obligés de faire effort pour s'arracher d'où ils sont et venir où vous êtes; imiter les rires et les mots auxquels vous êtes habitués; avoir la politesse ou le mépris de ne pas trop vous surprendre.

I got quite used to changing that cheque, because you can get used to anything. You think: I'll never do that; and you find yourself doing it.

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation." "Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community." "The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

within weeks, you can run up and down easily, your feet knowing exactly where to go. But only in your own house. On another man's steps, look out.