Quotes about Conditioned

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. Votes: 3

You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king? Votes: 3

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. Votes: 2

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. Votes: 2

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary. Votes: 2

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned. Votes: 2

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it. Votes: 2

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. Votes: 2

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. Votes: 2

We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval. Votes: 2

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. Votes: 2

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy. Votes: 2

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. Votes: 2

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Votes: 2

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions. Votes: 2

We really don't know how to love each other because we haven't really learned to love ourselves. In many instances, not all, it's not malicious. We've just been conditioned to such bad behavior. Votes: 2

I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair. Votes: 2

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned. Votes: 2

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you. Votes: 2

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. Votes: 2

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. Votes: 2

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again. Votes: 2

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now. Votes: 2

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. Votes: 2

In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is. Votes: 2

I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and I can remember what it was like when your barber shop and your local stores weren't air conditioned, so it was hot when you went in them and they propped the doors open. Votes: 2

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy. Votes: 0

I think we're conditioned by watching movies. Votes: 0

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate Votes: 0

Most of you are conditioned by the media. Votes: 0

I think that man is conditioned to violence. Votes: 0

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology. Votes: 0

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. Votes: 0

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life. Votes: 0

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill. Votes: 0

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Votes: 0

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. Votes: 0

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run. Votes: 0

Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence. Votes: 0

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m. Votes: 0

This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Votes: 0

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal. Votes: 0

Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe. Votes: 0

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it. Votes: 0

Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day. Votes: 0

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost. Votes: 0

A child is born to win, but too many have been conditioned to lose. Votes: 0

In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it. Votes: 0

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol. Votes: 0

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players Votes: 0

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish. Votes: 0

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat. Votes: 0

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Votes: 0

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. Votes: 0

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden. Votes: 0

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear. Votes: 0

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear. Votes: 0

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred. Votes: 0

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body. Votes: 0

I'm a stylist, so I've been conditioned to setting up my own clothes like a fitting. Votes: 0

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries. Votes: 0

Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them. Votes: 0

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are. Votes: 0

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative. Votes: 0

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. Votes: 0

Carrying the weight of a conditioned mind leaves little opportunity for the questions you should be asking. Votes: 0

But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another. Votes: 0

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. Votes: 0

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves. Votes: 0

I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues. Votes: 0

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit. Votes: 0

I love working in the markets, I love working with fabric. So I'm not that conditioned to one thing. Votes: 0

I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy. Votes: 0

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. Votes: 0

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so. Votes: 0

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me. Votes: 0

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening. Votes: 0

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises. Votes: 0

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others. Votes: 0

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. Votes: 0

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. Votes: 0

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying. Votes: 0

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. Votes: 0

If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now. Votes: 0

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned. Votes: 0

Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection". Votes: 0

We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within. Votes: 0

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet. Votes: 0

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. Votes: 0

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited. Votes: 0

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society. Votes: 0

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent. Votes: 0

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it. Votes: 0

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily. Votes: 0

It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart. Votes: 0

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good. Votes: 0

Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker. Votes: 0

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought. Votes: 0

The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving. Votes: 0

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. Votes: 0

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. Votes: 0

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in. Votes: 0

In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives. Votes: 0

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. Votes: 0

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment. Votes: 0

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? Votes: 0

Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here. Votes: 0

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue. Votes: 0

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man. Votes: 0

In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature. Votes: 0

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response Votes: 0

As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature. Votes: 0

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. Votes: 0

Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel Votes: 0

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening. Votes: 0

I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don't mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. Votes: 0

Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment. Votes: 0

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live. Votes: 0

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.' Votes: 0

Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood? Votes: 0

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most. Votes: 0

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of. Votes: 0

The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work. Votes: 0

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition. Votes: 0

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care. Votes: 0

Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time. Votes: 0

When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses. Votes: 0

Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception. Votes: 0

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening. Votes: 0

We're so conditioned to believe that milk does a body good and that we need enormous amounts of protein or we'll wither away. Look around, we're not withering - we're fat. Votes: 0

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. Votes: 0

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. Votes: 0

(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth Votes: 0

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist. Votes: 0

True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness. Votes: 0

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be. Votes: 0

Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment. Votes: 0

In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake? Votes: 0

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. Votes: 0

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture that's not conditioned to think in terms of symbol. Votes: 0

Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well. Votes: 0

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace. Votes: 0

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets. Votes: 0

The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort. Votes: 0

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. Votes: 0

Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them. Votes: 0

Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. Votes: 0

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. Votes: 0

Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It's been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact. Votes: 0

The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm. Votes: 0

They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception. Votes: 0

We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection on the human physique are conditioned by the dimensions of culture. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out. Votes: 0

Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we're weighed down by superfluous things at every level. Votes: 0