Quotes About Conditioning

#1. The power of the work comes through this alchemical process in which the darkness is transmuted into light, and the energy that was trapped in maintaining rigid social structures and unhealthy cultural conditioning becomes freed up and released.

William Keepin

#2. Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

Bruce Lee

#3. I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

Fleur East

#4. our value/belief system acts as a
conditioning factor for our thinking pattern.

Derric Yuh Ndim

#5. In spite of the air conditioning, she had filled the lounge with a faint sharp-sweet odor of large overheated girl.

John D. MacDonald

#6. Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

Pete Carril

#7. Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.

Mooji

#8. Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

John Wooden

#9. When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#10. To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

#11. Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

Herb Goldberg

#12. I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

Mark Messier

#13. the thing that will really change the world is not millions of people coming together in acts of retaliation against a corrupt system, but the individuals who learn to liberate themselves from the conditioning of their culture. A system no longer works if we choose to stop participating in it.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#14. Being considered crazy by those who are still victims of cultural conditioning is a compliment

Jason Hairston

#15. Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

Fay Weldon

#16. What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Germaine Greer

#17. The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

Joseph Pilates

#18. No matter how awakened you are, the conditioning roots are deep; very deep. Reclamation is a constant process.

Bryant McGill

#19. The air-conditioning was more like a vague gesture toward the abstract idea of air-conditioning.

David Foster Wallace

#20. Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

Carl Hagelin

#21. I bet there's air-conditioning in heaven," I said. "Maybe it's just the perfect temperature - low seventies with a breeze?" Josh said.

Heather Demetrios

#22. Only when the brain has cleansed itself of its conditioning, greed, envy, ambition, then only it can comprehend that which is complete. Love is this completeness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#23. Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

#24. Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved.

Mitch Hedberg

#25. The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind.

A.W. Tozer

#26. Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

Ka Chinery

#27. A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically.

Carrie Vaughn

#28. Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.

Woody Allen

#29. Most people in the media aren't bad people. They just go along to get along and it's the group culture and the conditioning. As soon as they see that things are wrong, some of them will start speaking out and making a stand.

Alex Jones

#30. Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.

Frederick Lenz

#31. What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

#32. What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

Bruce Lee

#33. America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.

Mario Balotelli

#34. A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Linus Torvalds

#35. Cars, with their air conditioning, windows, sound systems, and great speed, keep us isolated from our environment ...
"Self-propulsion," such as biking, walking, canoeing, puts us in touch with the land below and the world around us.

Dinty W. Moore

#36. Operant conditioning is not confined to deliberate training; it is one way that cats learn how to deal with whatever surroundings they find themselves in. Cats have not (yet) evolved to live in apartments; their instinctive behavior is still tuned to hunting in the open air.

John Bradshaw

#37. I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.

Leslie Mann

#38. Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.

James Dyson

#39. In the second training, we develop energy, concentration, and mindfulness. These are the meditative and life tools that enable us to awaken. Without them we simply act out the patterns of our conditioning.

Joseph Goldstein

#40. When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

Eckhart Tolle

#41. When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#42. In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

Deepak Chopra

#43. Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival. You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual slavery was the condition. While suddenly the laws may change, to some extent, the conditioning doesn't go away that fast.

Frederick Lenz

#45. After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

Germaine Greer

#46. Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.

Judith Curry

#47. Truth ...
is often confused for an opinion based on a lifetime of conditioning

Dana Gore

#48. Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

Dominick Cruz

#49. I work with a trainer called Ruben Tabares. He's a nutritionist, strength and conditioning coach, and an athlete. So I literally just train like an athlete.

Tinie Tempah

#50. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#51. When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

Merle Haggard

#52. The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#53. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

Aldous Huxley

#54. 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

#55. 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.

Deepak Chopra

#56. When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

Rem Koolhaas

#57. I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

Joseph Fiennes

#58. To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

Mooji

#59. I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

Bertrand Russell

#60. I'm all about kind of preserving hair and face, conditioning products and staying out of the sun.

Avril Lavigne

#61. When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.

Anthony Powell

#62. In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers.

Frederick Franck

#63. Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.

Shelby Lynne

#64. The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.

Frederick Lenz

#65. What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

Louis L'Amour

#66. I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

Alan Hollinghurst

#67. You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#68. I've come to learn that conditioning is a huge thing, so I'm definitely trying to get my conditioning up.

Rich Gunnell

#69. [T]here is nothing brighter, crisper, more antiseptic, and cooler than a really first-rate corner drugstore on a hot summer night. If Anne Stanton is inside the door and the air conditioning is working.

Robert Penn Warren

#70. Paradigm is a part of the conditioning of the mind, our conditioning thought patterns

Bob Proctor

#71. the world is conditioning your minds with violence

William P. Johnson

#72. Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

Suzanne Yoculan

#73. The world is in serious condition largely due to our conditioning to be serious. Seriously.

Swami Beyondananda

#74. We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.

Bryant McGill

#75. Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#76. Me? I'm nothing. I'm a fart in the air conditioning. I'm always there, but most of the time nobody knows it.

Orson Scott Card

#77. By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

#78. But one thing I've learned is that the minute I start fixating on what I don't have - time, money, a child I can send to camp for the summer, central air conditioning - I just feel that much hotter and put-upon, and those bad feelings seem to attract extra obstructions to my day.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

#79. A baby could be trained to view a glorious sunny day as depressing. A child could be trained to see a puppy as a vicious animal. An adult could be trained to see a drug as a pleasant vehicle for release. It's all a matter of conditioning, isn't it?

Robin S. Sharma

#80. Physical conditioning from regular exercise is important. And we can do so much more to keep our bodies strong.

Russell M. Nelson

#81. Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage.

Frederick Lenz

#82. the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.

John Shirley

#83. Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#84. You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

Rajneesh

#85. As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than present circumstances is causing our dissatisfaction , and that this moment is quite sufficient or even wonderful, and we simply hadn't noticed.

Wes Nisker

#86. Conditioning is my best weapon.

Frank Shamrock

#87. I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

Jack Bowman

#88. Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#89. While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.

Frederick Lenz

#90. I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

Keith Murray

#91. When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions, with the remainder generated by natural processes like plant decay.

Steven D. Levitt

#92. Systems. They are self-evident and can easily be validated by any individual. It's almost as if these principles or natural laws are part of the human condition, part of the human consciousness, part of the human conscience. They seem to exist in all human beings, regardless of social conditioning

Stephen R. Covey

#93. We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.

Karch Kiraly

#94. I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I thought was going to happen. So history will judge me based upon those actions.

Ray Nagin

#95. There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

Frederick Lenz

#96. The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.

Jeremy Clarkson

#97. We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

Katherine Dunham

#98. The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

Deepak Chopra

#99. imagined how great it would feel to jump into the water to cool off. Sure, she could just go inside the main cabin and freeze in the air conditioning. But

Kaira Rouda

#100. My hair is pretty wavy. And it's coarse and color-treated so I'm big on conditioner and conditioning masks.

Gwyneth Paltrow