“Comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly knows who he is.”— Brian Buckner, Eddie, Stephen Root, imdb.com
“We get one opportunity a week, three hours a week, to put that whole week of preparation and game-planning and therapy and conditioning, it all shows up in that one three-hour period. That really heightens how important every single play and everything we do—we could have great practices on Wednesda…”— Bill Belichick, espn.com
“As I see it, man is a product of his conditioning, and the social forces which mold his morality and conduct—including racial prejudice—are influenced more by material things like food and economic necessities than by the fear and awe and bigotry generated by the high priests of commercialized super…”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect. And indeed it is socially useful that we agree on the function of objects. But, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, aro…”— Aaron Siskind, amazon.com
“Totalitarian terror achieved its most terrible triumph when it succeeded in cutting the moral person off from the individualist escape. When a man is faced with the alternative of betraying and thus murdering his friends or of sending his wife and children to their death; how is he to decide? The al…”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com