Quotes About Familiarity

It's probably the thousandth time

If you were a software developer who knew a lot about cloud computing, you would instantly be familiar with software companies such as Salesforce.com. If you were working in food marketing, your would clearly be familiar with Nestle, Mondel?z International or Yum! Brands. The point here is that there would never be a need to screen thousands of companies in industries you don't know anything about and haven't even heard of. Animal

In the car, however, I see a stranger. And yet he is a stranger whose every part I know intimately.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

You don't realize how terrifying the world can be for someone like that, someone who would rather stay in a familiar hole than an unfamiliar mansion.

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

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.

This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.

You knew me. You KNOW me. I can't imagine my life without you, without someone who knows me that well.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one's daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

M?lest?ba ir ieraduma lieta.

Todo me resultaba extrañamente conocido y ajeno, o íntimo y reprobable

Se la echaría en falta, por costumbre más que por aflicción

Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.

At four years of age children accept without surprise that which is daily paraded before their eyes

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

The known is always the easiest. It's comfortable.

A quell'epoca, io stavo cercando l'oblio, e cercavo in quei volti assenti, anonimi, anche nei più penosamente familiari, una specie di innocua fuga. Una morte che non significasse essere morti.

But you get used to anything.

we didn't have the day-in, day-out knowledge of each other that most mothers and daughters have. It's not like she was a stranger; we had too much history for that. But at the same time, I couldn't say I knew her well. Or at least well enough to see her thoughts.

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.

Here is another thing I like about a good friendship, the go-aheadness of it all. You don't have to knock to come in the door. You don't have to ask to look in a refrigerator. You want coffee? Pour some. These friendships, formed by time, are getting so rare. I worry about that. "How