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

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• 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

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• 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”

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• 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

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• 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

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• New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

  Euripides

  Literature, Faces, Authority

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

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• 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

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• 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”

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• 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

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• 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.

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

  Lorna Luft

  Drama

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• 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

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• ...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

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• 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

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

  Ovid

  Art, And Love, Habit

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• [M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Thinking, Intuition

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.108, Macmillan

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• A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Country

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

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• Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Girl, Stars, Evening

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.17, North Point Press

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• How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Tests, Serious

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Essential Goethe”, p.250, Princeton University Press

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