Quotes About Habituation

It's funny what kind of hell you can get used to.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things.

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.

When people live in abnormality for too long, the abnormal becomes normal and eventually, identity is lost

KiÅŸi bir ÅŸeye al???rsa art?k onu önemsemeden yaÅŸar.

I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I'm watching.

I got desensitized by riding so many big waves that I don't really get a rush anymore.

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.

Culture can be invisible to its natives.

If doing something once makes you have fear, doing it over and over and over again is only going to reinforce that fear.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

Con qué rapidez se acepta lo increíble si se ve con frecuencia!

You spend so much time with someone, you find you get used to him.

When you do for other people (Fran's daddy said once upon a time when he was drunk, before he got religion) things that they could do for themselves, but they pay you to do it instead, you both will get used to it.

The nature of addiction has implications - more precisely, temptations -for businesses that sell habituating products. One is to encourage early and frequent consumption. Treat the lads, the salon keepers used to say, and you'll have their money in the till when they're adults. And the more they drink, the greater the profits.

The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can't seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.

They are so accustomed to the feeling that their senses are deadened to it;

Her body has become unused to electric comforts.

But you get used to anything.

There were other things we noticed only at first, before we accepted them as a part of daily life. Then they got harder to describe, the way it's hard to describe what it feels like to breathe air.

It shouldn't have hurt. She should be used to it by