Quotes About Habituation

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

When your body becomes accustomed to a chronic state of anxiety, the positive physiological changes that happen after good news can, paradoxically, trigger the sense that something isn't right—simply because you're not used to feeling good.

Slowly but surely life becomes normal, and a man gets used to it, it doesn't happen any other way.

that habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

All the sounds of the house, from the creak of the back stair under an early-rising maid's foot, to the drumming rain on the roofslates, were sounds he had heard a thousand times before; heard so often, he didn't hear them anymore. I did.

When we have an experience—hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room—on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

I never really noticed it any more, in the way that one often ignores familiar things, like seat cushions or loved ones.

Sometimes when we say I'm over it, we really mean I'm used to it.

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

I'm not immune to pain...I'm just used to it.

Isnt it sad when you get hurt so much, you can finally say I'm used to it.

After another few days, I noticed I became annoyed whenever I would actually have to ask Asshole for something. How quickly the creepy becomes commonplace.

How quickly the creepy becomes commonplace.

It's not so bad when you get used to it," said Doc. "I've been drinking it for seventeen years.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

Cuando una se acostumbra al horror, éste deja de verse, por tanto de existir. El horror mismo lleva a perder las proporciones del horror.

As people grow up, they teach themselves to do what distinguishes adults from children: they will choke and cough until they have mastered the cigarette, or force themselves to down bitter beer until they are ready to join the group that actually likes it.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.