Quotes About Conditioned

I've conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don't taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.

I'm a stylist, so I've been conditioned to setting up my own clothes like a fitting.

The general public has been conditioned to think 'comics = superheroes' for as long as caped crusaders have been around - by critics, mass media, and Marvel and DC themselves, who have what you might call a vested interest.

We've been conditioned to see a video of white people in MAGA hats standing in front of a Native American and assume that the white people are racists.

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

Do not weep, dear friend. Have I not told you that Separation is inevitable from all near and dear to us? Whatever is born, produced, conditioned, contains within itself the nature of its own Dissolution. It cannot be otherwise.

I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution.

While many different animal species have nervous systems that enable anticipation of events—for example, learning that a flashing light is associated with a reward in a conditioned learning experiment—planning for the future seems to be a prefrontal invention.

Religion is dangerous when it becomes absolutist and Manichean, that is, when it mistakes what always must be a finite and conditioned apprehension of the transcendent for the transcendent ground itself,

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

Unfortunately the acts of the virtuous don't make news, and we're conditioned today to seek sensation. Every non-event is reported as a crisis.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

karma just means action, in Buddhist terms to act out of an intention conditioned by external and internal conditions, which in turn will have a certain result and will leave a certain imprint.

Como biólogo especializado precisamente en el estudio de la naturaleza frente a la nutrición, no puedo dejar de destacar hasta qué punto nuestros hábitos están condicionados por la interacción más temprana entre nuestros genes y el entorno de nuestra infancia y juventud.

There is not the whole of being on one side, the whole of nothingness on the other, but no more are we specialized, conditioned nothingness. Consciousness is not the flux of lived experiences, but consciousness of lacks, of open situations.

the whole world is cause and effect; excluding this, there is no sentient being. from factors which are empty, empty factors originate. those who impute origination to even very subtle entities are unwise and have not seen the meaning of conditioned origination. there is nothing to be denied and nothing to be affirmed. see the real correctly, for he who sees the real correctly is released

Ideas only act if they are felt, if they awaken inner movement. Inner movement is conditioned by self-motivation, outer movement by compulsion.

Everything achieves reality insofar as it is conditioned by, or participates in, a pure idea.

Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator

The basic error of fundamentalism is that it overlooks the contribution of the receptive side in the revelatory situation and consequently identifies one individual and conditioned form of receiving the divine with the divine itself.

Rather than tending to assume that observation was in principle correctible, empiricists ... did not think it was possible (or even desirable) to rectify or perfect perception, because ... For them, all human knowledge is always necessarily circumscribed, conditioned by context, and conceived in terms of relationship