Quotes About Habituation

People get used to everything but being dead.

Thing about getting a place with a great view," Hawk said, "is, after you moved in and looked at the great view for a few days, you get used to it and it ain't a great view anymore. It just what you look at out your window.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -Scarecrow

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can't live without it.

On cause de son mal, on ne se coupe pas le cÅ"ur en quatre tout d'un coup, on s'habitue à la séparation, enfin !

We grow accustomed to the dark when light is put away--

Familiarity makes even the most fascinating figure dull: one would probably be bored with Jupiter Himself if one passed him on the street every day

An emptiness comes from this combination of over-the-top nonnatural sources of reward and the inevitability of habituation; this is because unnaturally strong explosions of synthetic experience and sensation and pleasure evoke unnaturally strong degrees of habituation.

She] may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did.

I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!

It can't be very pleasant getting used to living - no pleasanter than getting used to stopping it.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

The thing is, you get used to it. Before you even realise it's happening, you get used to things being different...

This habit of getting used to things is the reason that we seem to forget so quickly.

In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.

Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.

People get comfortable with technologies.

In the camp at Les Mille I observed again in myself and in others how very quickly the human being becomes acclimated.

Familiarity breeds indifference.

La familiaridad engendra la indiferencia.