Top 100 Second Nature Quotes
#2. The art of hiding in plain sight used to be second nature, and now it has become the whole of him
Helen Dunmore
#3. There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.
Elisabeth Marbury
#4. My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.
Anne Robinson
#5. We look at the Web as being our basic power plant, kind of like electricity, so the Web and communicating in this fashion is second nature to us now. It's not like we go brochure, television, mail. It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.
Ted Leonsis
#6. MARGARETE. Yes, out of sight is out of mind. It's second nature with you, gallantry; But you have friends of every kind, Cleverer by far, oh much, than me. FAUST. Dear girl, believe me, what's called cleverness Is mostly shallowness and vanity.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.
Dylan Bruce
#8. Daring greatly is not about winning or losing. It's about courage. In a world where scarcity and shame dominate and feeling afraid has become second nature, vulnerability is subversive.
Brene Brown
#9. Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
Twyla Tharp
#10. I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.
Dwight Yoakam
#11. When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.
Thandie Newton
#12. Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
Hamza Yusuf
#13. Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
James Dyson
#14. I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.
Michael Phelps
#16. And even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to her
Milan Kundera
#17. When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.
Mechai Viravaidya
#19. I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
Gabrielle Union
#20. I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.
Anna Kendrick
#21. You should practice these until they are your second nature.
Arnold Robbins
#22. It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#23. I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
Maggie Q
#24. THERE'S OLD SORROW in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense. Causes
Sebastian Barry
#25. We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.
Edwin J. Delattre
#26. Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.
Dave Navarro
#27. For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.
Michael Foreman
#28. Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly
Francis Bacon
#29. We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.
Noam Chomsky
#30. Whereas Rosa's lips were full and lush, her mother's were thin and pinched in an expression that hinted at pain so long suppressed and hidden that in hiding from the world, the pain had become second nature.
Michael Rowe
#31. To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#32. I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.
Kasey Chambers
#33. I've been training so long, its second nature to push myself to the limit.
Ronnie Coleman
#34. The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
Anthony Trollope
#35. Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
Adam Garcia
#36. Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.
John Hutton
#37. As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now.
Rob Gronkowski
#38. Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.
James Van Praagh
#39. I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.
Will Rogers
#40. I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.
Elisha Cuthbert
#41. Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.
Rocco DiSpirito
#42. Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.
Amy Wilensky
#43. My incentive? Making a peaceful spirit second nature. And that is so worth the effort.
Carlos Wallace
#44. I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.
John Updike
#45. I'm completely at ease on a set. I'm pretty comfortable most places, but hitting the mark and knowing set etiquette and understanding cameras and lenses are second nature. It's a language I've spoken for years.
Zoe Bell
#46. It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
Alice Childress
#47. Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.
Ilana Mercer
#48. I don't go home and pretend I'm August rather than just the actual lines I'm saying in the film. If you do it that way, it makes it more natural and second nature. After awhile you get used to it and there's so much, especially being in New York to film; you're always surrounded by American people.
Freddie Highmore
#49. Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#50. I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from that, I really try to surround myself with younger staff and approach making movies not like a veteran of the industry but always as a beginner and a rookie.
Takashi Miike
#51. It becomes part of a person's second nature; he belongs to the church, like he belongs to his family, and he does not quit his family because someone in it turns out to be a rascal.
Sterling M. McMurrin
#53. You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.
Les Brown
#54. Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
Blaise Pascal
#56. You'll understand when you're older. Or anyway not understanding will become second nature, and it won't matter.
Gregory Maguire
#57. Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.
Robert Downey Jr.
#58. Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
Vanessa Carlton
#59. It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.
Sara Sheridan
#60. What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.
Kevin Brockmeier
#61. It has to become second nature, for a programmer, to notice when a concept is begging to be abstracted into a new word.
Marijn Haverbeke
#62. I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question ... ' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#63. You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's
a second nature with me - and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#64. I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
Oksana Baiul
#65. It was lucky that snarking at Luke was habit by now: Elliot remembered a line from a book he'd read once, that habit was second nature, and nature stronger than the first. It was a comfort, to have a natural expression rather than one he had to pin on.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#66. If you choose to do the right thing, it's a conscious decision at first. Then it becomes second nature. You don't have to think about what is right because doing the right thing becomes who you are, like a reflex. Your actions with time become your character
J.L. Witterick
#67. As you keep practicing, using your intuition will become a habit - almost second nature.
Dr. Henry Naikien.Msc.D
#68. Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.
Timothy Ferriss
#69. I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
Len Wein
#70. I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.
Gene Watson
#71. This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while it becomes second nature, so that converse with God becomes inextricably and wonderfully woven into the fabric of our lives.
Sheila Cassidy
#72. For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.
Madhuri Dixit
#73. It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
#74. I always have to work hard to find a way to disconnect from the thinking until it becomes second nature to me because that's where you find the best moments. Dancing is like that for me all the time. It makes me feel free.
Jennifer Lopez
#75. Custom is almost a second nature.
Plutarch
#77. You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush
#79. I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.
Jeff Tweedy
#80. I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening ... that's the art.
Bette Midler
#81. The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.
Rob Paulsen
#83. I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.
Glenn Kotche
#84. Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust
#85. We can never achieve and succeed without first making excellence second nature.
Jolene Church
#86. French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#87. In acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside yourself and I do that anyway, so I might as well be doing something that I already do, as in a second nature to me, on film.
Gina Carano
#88. The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.
Suzanne Farrell
#89. Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal
#90. Habits are learned. You can cultivate good habits to replace old ones. Keep working on these habits until they become second nature to you.
Amanda Hopkins
#91. You're not a whore. You're a chick who hasn't exactly grown up with every advantage, and you've learned to use what you've got. You don't do it on purpose. It's second nature. You act girly and helpless and make men think you're harmless.
Jennifer Echols
#92. Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.
Isaac Asimov
#93. I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.
John Fante
#94. Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
Democritus
#95. I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
Bruce LaBruce
#96. Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men.
Stephen Richards
#97. So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.
But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?
Patrick Rothfuss
#98. For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
Danny Elfman
#99. Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
Nancy Kerrigan
#100. Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival ... It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'
Declan Donnellan
