Accustomed Quotes

• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  J. R. Martinez

  Challenges, Important, Comfort

  13 Copy quote

• I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Sleep, Awake At Night

  16 Copy quote

• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Christian, Pregnancy

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Umpires, Majority, Too Much

  7 Copy quote

• I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.

  Aron Ralston

  Beautiful, Parks, Avalanches

  16 Copy quote

• New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

  Euripides

  Literature, Faces, Authority

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The Complete Greek Tragedies”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.

  Joel Osteen

  Ungrateful, Miracle, Thankfulness

  14 Copy quote

• All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Possibility, Advantage, Can Do

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful about. And maybe the path of least resistance is just not get on the horse. Maybe the path of least resistance is to get on a different horse - but we would never move forward in fear.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

  13 Copy quote

• The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.... The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

  Fred Brooks

  Character, Thinking, Perfect

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Frederick Brooks, 1975.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

  Lorna Luft

  Drama

  6 Copy quote

• I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

  Kylie Minogue

  Years, Games, Next Level

  67 Copy quote

• ...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.

  George Albert Wells

  Reading, Writing, Science

  George Albert Wells (1991). “Belief and make-believe: critical reflections on the sources of credulity”, Open Court Pub Co

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Unjust Criticism, May, Ought

  7 Copy quote

• Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves
  To spend his time in his accustomed art.

  Ovid

  Art, And Love, Habit

  4 Copy quote

• I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

  Andreas Vesalius

  Science, Two, Scientific Method

  Letter on the China Root, quoted in "Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564" by Charles Donald O'Malley, 1964.

  197 Copy quote

  Show source

• A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

  16 Copy quote

• Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

  Randy Alcorn

  Terrified

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “Ollie Chandler Collection: Three Novels: Deadline, Dominion, Deception”, p.31, Multnomah

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

  Robertson Davies

  Preparation, Deprivation, Stimulus

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eugenics, Socialism, Communism

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.361, Courier Corporation

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Couple, Play

  11 Copy quote

• The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

  Elia Kazan

  Practice, Democracy, Communist

  "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

  Cameron Diaz

  Birthday, Girl, Growing Up

  7 Copy quote

• Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

  Edward Thorndike

  Nature, Thinking, Ideas

  19 Copy quote