John Dewey Quotes

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Conditioning can be not a big heavy thing. (For instance:) I've got a brand new pair of shoes, by mistake you step on it and you make them muddy and dirty, I'm conditioned to go "Hey, what are you doing?" That's my conditioning, I have a response. So, maybe we have to learn to find the pause before we react, because reaction is our conditioning.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Custom is second nature.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

People are conditioned to just you know, like, you know we're like little birdies going to the bird feeder you know, or the little cows going to the salt lick. We just like what we've seen before.

The power of habit is very strong.

...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

It takes a habit to replace a habit.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.