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

“Jabir listened but was not convinced.  “Iraq and Iran haven’t gotten along for many centuries. Why should we now?”

— Karl Braungart

In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type…

— Leonard Nimoy

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's…

— Oscar Isaac

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will…

— Paul Rand

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond…

— Paul Bloom

In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not…

— David Novak

Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching…

— Tom Seaver

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to…

— Campbell Scott

“We were conditioned to feel that we couldn’t really depend on people—that, even as children, asking someone for a meal or for help with…

— J.D. Vance

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live…

— Mohamed El-Erian

“We develop them over time. Beginning in childhood, we learned a series of conditioned responses that led us to react automatically (as in, without…

— Darren Hardy

We've been conditioned not to love ourselves.

— Sage Rael

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

— Eckhart Tolle

We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes…

— Tullian Tchividjian

“Why are we conditioned to the smooth, strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world... only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of…

— Sylvia Plath