Quotes About Familiarity

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

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.

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

I've been back to the Kansas City area a lot in the past. My sisters went to college in the area. My brother went to college in the area. I've got friends there, so there's some ties to the area.

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.

The word "familiar" comes from familia, meaning family. Family is more than just an emotional bond, and so is familiarity. Neurochemically, there's a lot going on with familiarity. Our minds look for patterns. When we recognize them, we not only rely on them, but also develop preferences based on pattern repetition. Our brains use these patterns to map everything we see, hear, and experience in order to establish an expectation for the future.

Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

So it is with most of us: that which we observe to be taken as a matter of course by those around us, we take as a matter of course ourselves.

Every novelty appears more wonderful as it is more remote from any thing with which experience or testimony has hitherto acquainted us; and if it passes further beyond the notions that we have been accustomed to form, it becomes at last incredible.

The two most engaging powers of an author: new things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Familiarity destroys reverence.

For example, what should you do when the person seems stuck on repeating a word, activity, or sentence over and over again? Repetition is common in the disease's later stages. The person is searching for familiarity and comfort as the brain continues its malicious march forward in decline. One of the ways to respond in addition to being calm and patient is to engage the person in an activity to break the pattern of repetition.

They could bind her to them, all of them, with need and love and worry. But they would not. They knew her as well as she knew them, and they would not ask her to stay.

It was like they were strangers. Maybe they were, again.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

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

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt

You develop a bond that comes from spending too much time together.