Quotes About Cultural Conditioning

#1. I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#2. To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

Zeena Schreck

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

Jason Hairston

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

Carrie Vaughn

#5. 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

#6. It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

Terence McKenna

#7. The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Without my family, I'd be something.

Gary Gulman

#9. When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

Glenn Hughes

#10. People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

Jonathan Sacks

#11. Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

Walter Jon Williams

#12. Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy ...

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#13. Our world-view determines the manner in which we engage the world.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. There are worse lives to live. Don't feel sorry for me.

Victoria Aveyard

#15. How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#16. Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.

Thomas Sherlock

#17. You're the one saying how vital offing these kids and grabbing their brat is to the war effort, right? Well, I'm telling you I need way more cash to do it right, so
Lying.
How have you not murdered that creature by now?
Oh, I've tried.

Brian K. Vaughan

#18. Think of Forrest Gump. For him, magic just kept happening because he was in total allowance of everything. His life was magic because he didn't limit the possibilities of what could show up for him by judging anything. You could say he wasn't smart enough to judge. Maybe he was smart enough NOT to.

Dain Heer

#19. Fate doesn't guarantee us a happy ending. We're not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn't some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.

Claudia Gray

#20. In loquaciousness lay insanity.

Alan Dean Foster

#21. North American cinema is the only true weapon of mass destruction. It has achieved to convince the audience not only that it's the best possible cinema, but that it is the only.

Arturo Ripstein

#22. We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

#23. You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

George Saunders

#24. Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are merely manifest differently according to one's culture and conditioning.

Yasuo Kuwahara

#25. If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.

Antonio Banderas

#26. The difference is between saying something to a person, and saying something about a person. The first might be rude, but the second is always gossip.

Patrick Rothfuss