Quotes About Conditioning

Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

Every time you respond in a certain fashion, it gets easier and easier to respond.

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

In mathematics, if you are of quick mind, you can get to the frontline of cutting-edge research very quickly. In some other domains you may have to read entire thick volumes first. Moreover, if you have been for too long in a certain domain, you get conditioned to think like everybody else. When you are new, you are not compelled to the ideas of the people around you. The younger you are, the more likely you are to be truly original.

The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly. In seeing them, in bringing them into the domain of reflective self-awareness, there is a possibility of emerging from their constraints. Choice emerges where before there was only blind and conditioned behavior.

They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly—that business about the marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.

There is the devastatingly simple, yet profound, moral dilemma, which underlies the book: is it better for a man to choose to be bad than to be conditioned to be good?

The horribly ironic cosmic trick of drug addiction is that drugs are a lot of fun when you first start using them, but by the time the consequences manifest themselves, you're no longer in a position to say, "Whoa, gotta stop that." You've lost that ability, and you've created this pattern of conditioning and reinforcement. It's never something for nothing when drugs are involved.

Any pattern of emotion or behavior that is continually reinforced will become an automatic and conditioned response. Anything we fail to reinforce will eventually dissipate.

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By resenting others' success, you condition yourself to avoid the very financial abundance that you need and desire.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

When it comes to self-worth, it pays to watch out for sabotaging voices, particularly those masquerading behind "positive" affirmations or conditional gratitude. Real self-worth—the type that stands the test of time—is built by decoupling our relationship with ourselves from all conditions. While your health or physical appearance may influence what you have—or even what you do—there is no intrinsic reason for it to shape who you are.

The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all but the strongest to a world that no longer offer important work to do. Bells destroy the past and future, rendering every interval the same as any other, as the abstraction of a map renders every living mountain and river the same, even though they are not. Bells inoculate each undertaking with significance.

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

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Stari sufletesti conditionate? Dar de cine? De lume? Dar ea nu exista decat pentru servitori. Si viata este o realitate doar pentru oamenii dintr-o bucata, inchinatori inconstienti ai vesnicei prostii.

each will form universal images according to the conditioning of his body.

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

I heal quickly, and I stay in good shape, and I will stay in good shape.

We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

Estaban no cerne da situación máis vulgar, máis estúpida do mundo. Pero por máis que sabían que era vulgar e estúpida, así e todo estaban alí: a oposición entre o traballo e a liberdade, oíran dicir, xa ía boa que deixara de constituír un concepto rigoroso; e sen embargo era o que máis os condicionaba.

I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring.