Quotes About Conditioning

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Whoever is in the best shape, whoever has put in the most work in the offseason is going to have a little bit of an edge, especially the first few games.

I just make sure I'm in good shape to fight whoever's in front of me.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

You put the pressure on this guy. You test his conditioning. You test the cardio. You test the heart, the will. That's how you beat RDA.

It is also perhaps the biggest challenge for us white Christians, who have been conditioned to move through our lives preoccupied with personal sin but unburdened by social injustice.

We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant stimuli, subliminal information, and internal forces we don't know a thing about.

Getting scientists to consider the validity of Indigenous knowledge is like swimming upstream in cold, cold water. They've been so conditioned to be skeptical of even the hardest of hard data that bending their minds toward theories that are verified without the expected graphs or equations is tough. Couple that with the unblinking assumption that science has cornered the market on truth and there's not much room for discussion.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

You are an educated man, Old One.' 'What is education besides a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life? There are many kinds of education, and often education closes as many doors as it opens for to believe implies disbelief. One accepts one kind of belief but closes the mind to all that is, or seems to be contradictory.

If you want a simple strength and conditioning program, stick to the basics. Run your 400s and 800s, and do lots of power cleans and presses and long heavy sets of squats.

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

You have to keep a little bit extra fat on the body. The strength and conditioning guy is always all over me about it, but it seems to make guys bounce off me better.

The 3 key components for success are as follows: Psychological Preparedness Physical Conditioning Mental Toughness

Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

She walks. She talks. She adapts. She has been conditioned to respond to the highest bidder.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees" Victor Hugo

What we're conditioned to believe about ourselves, and what we're programmed to think other people think about us, affects our performance, including how successful we are.

We usually give thanks for things when they've already happened. So in a sense, we've been hypnotized and conditioned into believing that we need a reason for joy, that we need a reason for gratitude.

Because of the size of our enormous forebrain, the privilege of being a human being is that we can make thought more real than anything else—and that's how the placebo works. To see how the process unfolds, it's vital to examine and review three key elements: conditioning, expectation, and meaning. As you'll see, these three concepts all seem to work together in orchestrating the placebo response. I

habit is when your body is the mind. Ninety-five percent of who you are by the time you're 35 years old is a set of memorized behaviors, skills, emotional reactions, beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes that functions like a

In the first scenario, when the cell makes new receptor sites, the body will crave those specific chemicals when the brain doesn't make enough, and consequently, our feelings will determine our thinking—our bodies will control our minds. That's what I mean when I say the body memorizes the emotion. It has become biologically conditioned and altered to be a reflection of the mind.

Therefore, in a conditioned response, we could say that a subconscious program, which is housed in the body (I'll talk more about this in the coming chapters), seemingly overrides the conscious mind and takes charge. In this way, the body is actually conditioned to become the mind because conscious thought is no longer totally in control.

Beliefs are also more permanent than attitudes; they can last for months or even years. And because they last longer, they become more programmed within you.