Automatic Response Quotes

I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never because I use my brain.

We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

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

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

I think it's somewhere in my head, in my travel space, and it just comes out. It's a visual thing that happens unintentionally. People will tell me, "You do realize you just spoke with that accent, right?" And I'll go, "Oh, did I?" So it's not something I think about. As we talk, I have a visual about my speech and it just comes out like that. If that makes any sense!

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.

You ever go up to the tee and say, 'Don't hit it left, don't hit it right'? That's your conscious mind. My body knows how to play golf. I've trained it to do that. It's just a matter of keeping my conscious mind out of it.

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

All beginnings are involuntary.

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

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

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.