Quotes About Automatic

#1. Automatic synchronization is the killer feature of Dropbox, something that will save lots of time and streamline collaboration.

Ian Lamont

#2. When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode. I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

Jonathan Lethem

#3. It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Marshall McLuhan

#4. Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

Deepak Chopra

#5. Although System 2 believes itself to be where the action is, the automatic System 1 is the hero of the book. I describe System 1 as effortlessly originating impressions and feelings that are the main sources of the explicit beliefs and deliberate choices of System 2. The

Daniel Kahneman

#6. once we realize that obedience to authority is mostly rewarding, it is easy to allow ourselves the convenience of automatic obedience.

Robert B. Cialdini

#7. I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

Oleg Cassini

#8. Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic.

John D. MacDonald

#9. Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

Igor Ivanov

#10. A verbalizing race has words for every old concept . . . and creates new words or new definitions for old words whenever a new concept comes along. Always! A nervous system that is able to verbalize cannot avoid verbalizing; it's automatic.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

Pierre Dukan

#12. One very important domain of our lives and experience that we tend to miss, ignore, abuse, or lose control of as a result of being in the automatic pilot mode is our own body.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#13. We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship,

Elaine Chao

#14. Thinking, then, is not conscious. Rather, it is an automatic process following a struction and the materials on which the struction is to operate.

Julian Jaynes

#15. There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

Susan Jeffers

#16. ONE OF THE THINGS that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself. Recently, in France, I was hit square on the head by an automatic parking barrier, something I don't think I could have managed in my younger, more alert years.

Bill Bryson

#17. The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

Norbert Wiener

#18. Those little fish and the lobster as well are automatic survival mechanisms, like politicians. They

Hovav Heth

#19. This process - in which the brain converts a sequence of actions into an automatic routine - is known as "chunking," and it's at the root of how habits form.1.18 There are dozens - if not hundreds - of behavioral chunks that we rely on every day.

Charles Duhigg

#20. The spectacle of the constabulary in the terminal with automatic weapons slung on their shoulders also made me homesick, confirming I was again in a country with its malnourished neck under a dictator's loafer.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#21. Lost in Static 18
And the storm is closing in now
Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell
You're a prisoner of the dark sky
The propeller blades are still
And the evil eye of the hurricane's
Coming in now for the kill

Mike Oldfield

#22. The automatic, fixed-action patterns of these animals work very well the great majority of the time. For example, because only healthy, normal turkey chicks make the peculiar sound of baby turkeys, it makes sense for mother turkeys to respond maternally to that single "cheep-cheep" noise.

Robert B. Cialdini

#23. Amos took a high-caliber automatic that fired self-propelled rounds, recoilless and designed for use in zero g. Old-fashioned slug throwers were more reliable, but in null gravity they were also maneuvering thrusters.

James S.A. Corey

#24. Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

Norbert Wiener

#25. If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate on automatic pilot. There are individuals that make decisions - and some make the right decisions, and some make the wrong decisions.

Jed S. Rakoff

#26. Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic. Pointed at her head and said the gun was full of lead, he told the cops, back off or honey here's dead.

Slick Rick

#27. A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

Jessica Valenti

#28. Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact it is a learned phenomenon. The world you live in, including the experience of your body, is completely dictated by how you learned to perceive it. If you change your perception, you change the experience of your body and your world.

Deepak Chopra

#29. The wizards' automatic response to any problem was to see if there was a book about it.

Terry Pratchett

#30. I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.

Sam Waterston

#31. The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words
not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable

Jacques Barzun

#32. Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?

Natalie Angier

#33. almost automatic response: "That's just a senseless obsession. It's a false message. I'm going to focus my attention on something else." At this point, the automatic transmission in your brain begins to start working properly again.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#34. I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.

Jessica Pare

#35. We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

Alan Dershowitz

#36. The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see ... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.

Ian Anderson

#37. In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.

Dave Eggers

#38. What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

P. J. O'Rourke

#39. No, we're not looking at how to control criminals ... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

Howard Metzenbaum

#40. Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

Dallas Willard

#41. Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Rudy Rucker

#42. When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

Marie Osmond

#43. Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

#44. R.E.M.'s 'Automatic for the People' - that's probably one of my favourite records - Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' - that's some record - Crowded House's 'Together Alone' - that's brilliant, fantastic record.

Jamie Lawson

#45. Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Norman Vincent Peale

#46. For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

A.S. Byatt

#47. I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.

William Klein

#48. I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

Elizabeth McCracken

#49. Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.

Robert Heilbroner

#50. Evolution across the universe was nothing but the endless proliferation of automatic, organized complexity, a vast arid Turing machine full of self-replicating machinery forever unaware of its own existence. And we - we were the flukes and the fossils. We

Peter Watts

#51. Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.

Denise Van Outen

#52. Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

Douglas Wilder

#53. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

George Orwell

#54. Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars
new cars
that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier."
Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.

Richelle Mead

#55. Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as
in moral truth and accountability they are.

Peter Drucker

#56. Coming from money in a place like this gives you automatic popularity and acceptance if you care about those kinds of things, but I don't.
It's phony.
Nothing genuine can ever be cultivated under those circumstances, and I'm fine with this.

Jason Myers

#57. The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.

Bill Murray

#58. Making a lifestyle change is challenging, especially when you want to transform many things at once, you better start with one, when you see the change you'll have an automatic motivation entering into your life.

Auliq Ice

#59. With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#60. Although to our automatic brain, change always means potential danger. In order to calm that brain, it means embracing change so to turn on the light in our mind and open the door to our true potential.

Charles F. Glassman

#61. Some automatic responses are good - they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming tends to have a life of its own - or more accurately, to steal the life that belongs to us.

John Shirley

#62. Mindfulness is focusing on the present with intent, being in the present instead of allowing ourselves to be run on automatic pilot by our past-based default programming. Being

Steven Jay Fogel

#63. Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure of aptitude, but actually learning it may be effortless, automatic, and require very little of what we normally think of as intelligence.

Greg Carlson

#64. The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

Patricia Richardson

#65. When troubles come may prayer be your automatic response.

Billy Graham

#66. The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.

Elizabeth Thornton

#67. I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

Jane Levy

#68. which will enable either a human or an automatic operator to control the insect's movements remotely and to absorb and transmit information.

Yuval Noah Harari

#69. Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

Bruce Springsteen

#70. It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.

Louis MacNeice

#71. The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic.

Richard Thaler

#72. A habit can be regarded as something that we do regularly without giving it too much thought. It is an automatic behavioral and mental activity, which makes us possible for us to do things without spending excessive mental energy.

Christ Lewis

#73. Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.

Michael Nutter

#74. Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Richard Dawkins

#75. Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. We

Neal Shusterman

#76. Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

W. H. Auden

#77. Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.

Bill Murray

#78. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#79. Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

John Howard Yoder

#80. Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.

Jesse Jackson

#81. One thing you should remember is that mental transformations take time and are not easy. I think some people from the West, where technology is so good, think that everything is automatic.

Dalai Lama XIV

#82. When I was 19, I picked up an old, tiny, automatic Yashica camera and I just started shooting. We didn't have iPhones back then, we didn't even have cell phones. I loved having a camera in my hand.

Drew Barrymore

#83. When you will have made him a body without organs,
then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.

Antonin Artaud

#84. I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

Mary Quant

#85. With the right Mindset ... effective thinking is automatic.

Tony Dovale

#86. A foolish woman believes that loyalty is automatic. A wise woman knows that it is earned.

Shannon L. Alder

#87. My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Brian Eno

#88. Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

Millard Drexler

#89. No happy marriage was, in his estimation, ever based on thoughtless, automatic untruths and exclusions. And the best way to make someone unhappy, if not downright unbalanced, is to tell her that what she sees with her own eyes is not there at all.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#90. I have the basic skills already, my basic weapons if we put it that way. From there I can add more the necessary skills I need for a particular opponent. I have to study all the aspects of my opponent, so when I am in the ring, everything will be automatic.

Tomoki Kameda

#91. I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#92. How old are you?" she asked.
My answer was automatic and ingrained. "Seventeen."
"And how long have you been seventeen?"
I tried not to smile at the patronizing tone. "A while," I admitted.
"Okay," she said, abruptly enthusiastic. She smiled up at me.

Stephenie Meyer

#93. What a perfect escape the return to the womb was. Better by far than Religion or Art or the South Sea Islands. It was so snug and warm there, and the feeding was automatic.

Nathanael West

#94. At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

Anna Kournikova

#95. If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

John Fowles

#96. You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on.

John Grisham

#97. The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.

Mark Helprin

#98. Men don't become worth your while until they're in their thirties." ...
"Well, it's not automatic with all men, you know." ...
"With women, of course, it's different. Women are born interesting.

Natasha Mostert

#99. Most public bathrooms now have automatic toilet sensors. People can't even be trusted to flush.

Dov Davidoff

#100. How could I have missed it? Easy. Deep in grief over Casey leaving, I'd gone on automatic pilot this morning, barely glancing in the mirror as I brushed my hair, smoothed on my makeup. I clamp down on the impulse to dig out a mirror and check out the 'mark.

Magda Alexander