Quotes of Conditioned - somelinesforyou

“ There is a popular misconception that film-makers have to look to Hollywood to be commercially successful but this is how we have been conditioned. ”

- Mike Leigh

“ I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out. ”

- Red Adair

“ The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. ”

- Richard D. Rosen

“ Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them. ”

- John Updike

“ Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a woman's vagina. ”

- Esther Vilar

“ Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo — and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. ”

- William S. Burroughs

“ You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors — how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices. ”

- John Wooden

“ Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint — Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems… ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned… ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions… ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms conditioned mind. ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books. ”

- John Updike
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