#conditioning

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#air conditioning #barbarians #brought #coming #conditioning

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#coleman #conditioning #designed #first #first time

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#conditioning #dissent #santa #anarchy

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#beings #conditioning #control #denial #forms

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy... ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#beliefs #conditioning #cultural-conditioning #culture #eduction

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#air #air conditioning #almost #also #appeared

There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#again #arms #bag #because #conditioning

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. ↗

— James Dean

#crook #great #truly #way #world

We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#conditioning #immoral #violence #change

All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#body #class #conditioning #get #go