Hedonic Adaptation Quotes

#1. After the rings, the priest should just say, "Enjoy it, bing-bongs. Due to our brain's tendency toward hedonic adaptation, you won't feel quite this giddy in a few years. All right, where's the pigs in a blanket? I'm outta here.

Aziz Ansari

#2. There's actually a term for this - "hedonic adaptation." When good things happen, we bake them very quickly into our baseline expectations,

Dan Harris

#3. The Hedonic Treadmill By failing to anticipate the extent of our hedonic adaptation, as consumers we routinely escalate our purchases, hoping that new stuff will make us happier.

Dan Ariely

#4. If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

#5. Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

#6. For Magic to happen in our lives, we need to be open minded about magical things happening

Steven Aitchison

#7. I do not bother my head with speculations about the nature of God. I simply attach myself to the human Christ,

Martin Luther

#8. Except he'd been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster. That was the night I became an insomniac.

Khaled Hosseini

#9. The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.

George Sisler

#10. There is a natural and inviolable tendency in things to bloom into whatever they truly are in the core of their being. All we have to do is align ourselves with what wants to happen naturally and put in the effort that is our part in helping it happen.

David Richo

#11. Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#12. For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'

Rodney King

#13. 'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking.

Kelsey Chow