Quotes About Familiarity

Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity

somehow when it's real, when it's your life...that person can feel farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

I have never, ever been so happy to see a house.

Sure, Noah was a bit closer than that...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't bread familiarity.

But it felt like I knew him in the same way that I know people on television. I knew the name. I watched the show.

He seemed casually at home, as if he felt that the place belonged to them, as they always felt wherever they went together.

the expression which, for both of them, meant that they felt at home with each other: an expression of contempt

Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference.

THE "GOING HOME" SYNDROME As human beings, we gravitate toward the familiar. We like to sleep on the same side of the bed each night, to park in the same space at work, to go back to our favorite vacation spot. Returning to the familiar is a basic instinct that gives our lives a sense of continuity and safety in a chaotic and changing universe.

You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home.

No matter what happens on God's green earth, Father acts like it's a movie he's already seen and we're just dumb for not knowing how it comes out.

In Lee County they say you have to look hard for a face you've not seen before, which surely was true for Mom, who'd directed anybody that could walk to where the Solo cups are kept on Aisle 19.

To be here was to be known. If Lee County isn't that, it's nothing.

Context had reinforced familiarity, and familiarity had blinded them to new possibilities.

This ubiquitous feature of human psychology is a process known as adaptation. Simply put, we get used to things, and then we start to take them for granted.

when products are essentially equivalent, people go with what's familiar, even if it's only familiar because they know its name from advertising.

The ubiquitous feature of human psychology is a process known as adaptation . Simply put, we used get to things and then we start to take them for granted.

Diverse, horizontal social networks, in Ruef's analysis, were three times more innovative than uniform, vertical networks. In groups united by shared values and long-term familiarity, conformity and convention tended to dampen any potential creative sparks.

as we become familiar with something, we think about it more in terms of the use we put it to and less in terms of what it looks like and what it is made of.

People love what they're used to, I guess." "No." You shook your head. "People should love what needs loving. That way they can save it.

A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

I love being called NTRs grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didnt try enough or maybe because I like it this way.