Top 19 Habituation Quotes
#1. It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.
Johannes P. Muller
#2. Aristotle insists that habituation, not teaching, is the route to moral virtue (II. 1). We must practise doing good actions, not just read about virtue.
Aristotle.
#3. Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.
Virginia Postrel
#4. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle.
#5. Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi
#6. Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.
Thorstein Veblen
#8. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#9. It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.
Rudolf Virchow
#10. Understanding habituation requires grasping not only how we move from semblance of virtue to actual virtue by coming to act "for the right reasons" but also what constitute right reasons for acting.
Jennifer A. Herdt
#11. You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch.
Sylvain Neuvel
#12. You and I can handle certain pressures. We don't feel the need to exaggerate or indulge in, quote, unquote, stress. We're survivors. We have perspective. Remember that.
Hilary Reyl
#13. Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
William Christopher Handy
#14. I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.
Jules Shear
#15. With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.
Larry Watson
#16. What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
Joseph Campbell
#17. Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him ...
Saddam Hussein
#18. When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'
Kevin O'Leary
#19. There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.
Rachael Yamagata
