Quotes About Acclimatization

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

When you change teams, cities or countries it's obvious there's a period of adaption, but some players can adapt quicker than others.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

New York group that took as its mission "the introduction and acclimatization of such foreign varieties of the animal and vegetable kingdom as might prove useful or interesting" imported European starlings to the U.S. (The head of the group supposedly wanted to bring to America all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare.)

Gewenning. Het lijkt verraderlijk veel op tevredenheid maar is het tegenovergestelde.

Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...

At West Ham there were a couple of French players and they helped me get used to the team and the club.

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.

Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

There is nothing people cannot get accustomed to, even to a life like mine, and so I must be careful, very careful indeed, not to become accustomed to it myself.

De gewenning zou ons hebben gevoerd naar dat roemloze maar ook ramploze einde dat het leven bewaart voor degenen die de langzame afstomping door slijtage niet afwijzen.

You got used to a bit of peace and you got used to a bit of extra pretty polly.

The most scandalous aspect of any scandal is that one gets used to it.

He even got used to living in a lack of privacy like that of a monkey in a Zoo. After a time he could without self-consciousness sit and read the Paris editions

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

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

I hated L.A. when I first got here. Hated it.

The heat doesn't bother me as much as it does other people. I'm from Brazil, where it's hot anyway.