Programmed Quotes

150 quotes by 134 authors

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love. — Chuck Palahniuk
Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of… — Steven Pressfield
We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse… — Robert Genn
Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority… — Frederick Lenz
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death. — Esther Hicks
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who… — Tony Gilroy
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are… — Germaine Greer
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream.… — Paul Davies
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex. — Joshua Foer
Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go,… — Tom Hooper
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is… — David Icke
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I… — R. Kelly
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. — Ray Kurzweil
I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed. — Jude Law
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky… — Tommy Lee
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move… — Audre Lorde
I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play. — Willie Mays
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward… — Marshall McLuhan
Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I… — Mark Morris

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