Top 460 Conditioned Quotes & Sayings

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

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

The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."

This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. So is all conditioned existence to be seen.

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.

Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present....Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness. You are not fully here. You have not quite woken up yet. In the meantime, the conditioned mind is running your life.

A person's safety and quality of life should not be conditioned upon who they love or how they identify.

Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

I am a sensitive, emotionally conditioned human being, and I have suffered racist abuse.

We're all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.

In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

When you accept the way things are, there's really no other way to operate than the way you've been conditioned to. You live in America: you're free to vote, you go vote, and you continue to see the problems of being a nationalistic society. You don't really know what to do because you're conditioned to feel that's just the way things are.

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

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

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

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

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

A child is born to win, but too many have been conditioned to lose.

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

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

I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

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

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

There's some members of the older generation who have been conditioned with such closed minds.

Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

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.

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.

If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

I tried to be one of the best-conditioned athletes.

I'm a stylist, so I've been conditioned to setting up my own clothes like a fitting.

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

We are conditioned to believe that the hero is always a man, but it might not necessarily be so.

Lindor is a good player. When I was 20, I wasn't conditioned like he is.

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.

I'm Catholic, I'm conditioned to confess.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.