Second Nature Quotes

69 Second Nature quotes by 65 unique authors

• Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' — Declan Donnellan
• Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things… — Adam Garcia
• Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature… — Blaise Pascal
• Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. — Marcel Proust
• Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. — Helen Rowland
• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.'… — Jacki Weaver
• I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. — Len Wein
• The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the… — Herbert Marcuse
• You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease… — Jean-Paul Sartre
• The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than… — Dwight Yoakam
• Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union. — John Hutton
• Love is your second nature, sweetness is your third. You are the cutest person I have met yet and your style always makes me smile… — Superman
• Being disappointed in you, is not something new. It's become second nature to know what you won't do. To be there, to comfort, to walk… — Scarlet Koop
• Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of… — Francis Bacon Sr
• Many times in our lives we have to make difficult decisions that will affect not only our lives, but the lives of others around us.… — Unknown Author
• I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want… — Anna Kendrick

Who Wrote These Second Nature Quotes

65 authors contributed a total of 69 Second Nature Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Second Nature Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
• 2 Second Nature Quotes by Blaise Pascal
• 1 Second Nature Quote by William James
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Will Rogers
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Vanessa Carlton
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Twyla Tharp
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Thandie Newton
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Ted Leonsis
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Superman
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Scarlet Koop
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Saint Augustine
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Ronnie Coleman
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Rocco DiSpirito
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Robert Farrar Capon
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Robert Downey, Jr.
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Plutarch
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Penelope Cruz
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Oksana Baiul
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Noam Chomsky
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Nancy Kerrigan
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Marcel Proust
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Maggie Q
• 1 Second Nature Quote by Madhuri Dixit