Quotes About Habituation

My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

Habituation is a form of nonassociative learning because it involves a single stimulus that has an innate or otherwise preexisting capacity to affect behavior. For example, a loud noise elicits a startle reflex the first time it occurs, but this ability weakens with repetition. Extinction,

Man, like all living beings, adapts and habituates himself to the conditions in which he lives, and transmits by inheritance his acquired habits. Thus being born and having lived in bondage, being the descendant of a long line of slaves, man, when he began to think, believed that slavery was an essential condition of life; and liberty seemed to him an impossible thing.

A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words

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

supposed he'd get used to the smell eventually, even though he

Activities once unintelligible (like willingly eating bran muffins) would become common. In

What strange beasts people are , she thought. We adjust to everything so quickly. Perhaps we would even get used to Hell.

We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.

Pour commencer à luy oster son plus grand avantage contre nous, prenons voye toute contraire à la commune. Ostons luy l'estrangeté, pratiquons-la, accoustumons-la, n'ayant rien si souvent en la teste que la mort…

thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition.

Ma è un fatto provato, per quanto molto strano, che anche la cosa più orribile perde parte del suo orrore quando si ripete continuamente.

Una cosa rara es que el horror pierde su espanto cuando se repite mucho.

Aber es ist eine seltsame Tatsache, dass das Entsetzliche seine Schrecken verliert, wenn es sich immer wiederholt.

Nu am f?cut operaÈ›ia suficient de mult timp pentru ca t?ierea puilor s? devin? o rutin?, dar munca a început s?-mi dea senzaÈ›ia unei proceduri mecanice, iar aceast? senzaÈ›ie, poate mai mult decât oricare alta, m-a tulburat: cât de repede te poÈ›i obiÈ™nui cu orice, îndeosebi atunci când cei din jur nu cred nimic despre ceea ce faci.

I'm used to it. Try slamming your fist into a brick wall every day. Eventually you won't even feel the pain anymore.

Ainsi, sous le nom d'Ordre et de Gouvernement Civique, nous sommes tous amenés à rendre hommage et allégeance à notre propre médiocrité. On rougit d'abord de son crime et puis on s'y habitue ; et le voilà qui d'immoral devient amoral et non sans usage dans la vie que nous nous sommes fabriquée.

Or as Luther Burbank put it, "It is repetition, repetition, repetition that habituates the skill.

familiarity breeds acceptance.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

Welcome to the world," he said wearily. "You get used to it after a while.

If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd.

Yes, the sound of the new V6 engines could have been a little bit better, but it is just one of those things that you get used to with time.