Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

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

When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

Familiarity can blind too.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two or three years it was heady. I was discovering that I could do something and do it well. Be useful to people. It was exhilarating, sort of like the first two weeks of being in love with somebody, and then it becomes like the third bite of pizza. The first bite is wonderful. The second bite is not disappointing. The third? Meh. You get used to it.

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.