Quotes About Conditioning

Maintenant que nous (les femmes) pouvons devenir parfois, dans certains pays et dans certaines circonstances, des Hommes comme les autres, ce caractère qu'on croyait inné apparaît pour ce qu'il est : un conditionnement imposé.

On est comme des ordinateurs qu'on programme et déprogramme à volonté. Nous nous conditionnons même à nos réussites et à nos échecs futurs.

All these things have been created in your mind by conditioning, by programming; that's what the society has done to you. We have lived the whole of history in an ugly way.

Any dog owner knows that Pavlov's dog wouldn't have salivated when he heard the bell ring. He would have learned to ring the bell when he was hungry.

I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.

A lot of fighters just go to the gym and spar or wrestle, but they forget about their conditioning. Things like that cause lots of injuries.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

I'm worried that the audience is being conditioned. That's my real fear. Because if they don't want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it's only going to get worse. Those of us who don't want to shoot up and cut and sew, we're just not going be cast.

Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.   Ã¢â'¬â€Douglas Busch

We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

Women have been conditioned to please. We are responsible not just for ourselves but everyone in our orbit. We think it is our job to comfort the man.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a one-way ticket to a toxic relationship because it makes your love conditional - you will love your partner as long as they help you feel better about yourself.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.

We're so deeply conditioned to believe that there's a right or wrong choice that when it comes time to make even minor decisions in life, we're scared of messing up.

You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

Physical symptoms, emotions, social pressure, conditioned thinking, lack of awareness, and other factors influence behaviors. To lose weight, you need to target those underlying factors, not just what you eat or do.

A lot of stuff, I've noticed, gets manipulated by writers when it's shown on television—even so-called reality television—and makes us think we're supposed to think and act and look certain ways, when the true reality is totally the opposite. Often there's no "right way" to look or think or act, but because we've been so conditioned by the media to think so, we actually mistrust our own better judgment.

Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract.

repression, which "proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his actual ego [self]…. For the ego the formation of an ideal would be the conditioning factor of repression" (1914c, pp. 93-94).

They don't use the word used anymore. With cars it's preowned. With books, preread. With clothes what would you say, preoccupied?

When you do something all of your life, it's still ingrained in you.

I am a naturally big guy, but I cannot rush my conditioning, otherwise trying too much too quickly could result in injuries.