Second Nature Quotes
69 quotes by 65 authors
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Custom is second nature.
— Saint Augustine
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like…
— John Updike
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
— William James
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Custom is almost a second nature.
— Plutarch
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Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
— Blaise Pascal
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For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
— Danny Elfman
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We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.
— Noam Chomsky
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I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is…
— Janis Ian
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Habit is second nature.
— Michel de Montaigne
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But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; an enthusiasm that…
— Fielding H. Yost
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It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and…
— Penelope Cruz
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Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now.…
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . .…
— Buster Keaton
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For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second…
— Madhuri Dixit
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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
— Immanuel Kant
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Make the second effort your second nature.
— Harvey Mackay
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We look at the Web as being our basic power plant, kind of like electricity, so the Web and communicating in this fashion is second…
— Ted Leonsis
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe…
— Vanessa Carlton
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Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.
— James Van Praagh
Who Wrote These Second Nature Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 69 Second Nature Quotes, led by these top contributors: