Tom Hopkins Quotes

You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset.

Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.

Habits change into character.

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

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.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

When a wrong thought is told a thousand times and impressed on one’s brain, one starts feeling the falsehood as truth. Similarly if the mind of slave is hammered of slavery, he starts enjoying his slavery

If you have been put in your place long enough, you begin to act like the place.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he believed in - or was brainwashed into believing - because of the people that surrounded him.

Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

I am convinced that we become what we do.

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.

If you repeat something long enough people believe it's what happened.

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.