Brian Eno Quotes

When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that's how it is.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him.

Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the conscious and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

The conventional wisdom of the United States is not always the right conventional wisdom.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

The longer you experience a scene, you tend to accept what's going on.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.