Conditioned Quotes

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
James Allen

Happiness, Health, Happy

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

Money, Woman, Old

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza

Nature, Nothing, Universe

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.
Russell Baker

Him, Down, Young

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.
Bryan Cranston

Smile, Society, Nice

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
John Updike

Respect, Whatever, Costs

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Time, Passing, Adversary

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
Arthur Middleton

Himself, Church, Christ

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
Lester B. Pearson

Life, Powerful, Cannot

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
Wesley Snipes

Black, Country, Problem

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
Ruben Blades

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.
Andrew Cohen

Happen, Gender, Cultures

Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.
Joe Scarborough

Sleep, Past, Hard

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
David Hilbert

Science, Opinion, Whole

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

Freedom, Body, Physical

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
Albert J. Nock

Life, Spiritual, Why

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.
John Lone

Trying, Point, Quite

Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.
Claudio Reyna

Play, High, Sure

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
Bennie Thompson

Almost, Muslim, Majority

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.
Jim Lampley

Lost, Sense, Attention

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
Corliss Lamont

Creative, Present, However

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
Betty Dodson

Women, Sacrifice, Female

I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.
William Mapother

Made, Small, Find

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.
Virchand Gandhi

Knowledge, Feeling, Real

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.
Mary C. Jones

Fear, Him, Directly

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Aaron Siskind

Learned, Learn, Expect

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 Rosen

End, Acting, Dogs

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