Pavlovian Reaction Quotes & Sayings

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is. — Howard G. Hendricks

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation. — Barbara Broccoli

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm. — Donald Hall

The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men
one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf
and it'll look up expectantly. — Neil Gaiman

I like no endings. I like things that don't end. — Becky Albertalli

The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across the knuckles, and so whenever you put a piece of music in front of me, there's a Pavlovian reaction where it starts off. — Hans Zimmer

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory. — Philip Sidney

How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone. — Les Brown

These days, every politician is a laughing-stock, and the laughter which occasionally used to illuminate the dark corners of the political world with dazzling, unexpected shafts of hilarity has become an unthinking reflex on our part, a tired Pavlovian reaction to situations that are too difficult or too depressing to think about clearly. — Jonathan Coe

Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy
and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent. — Thomas Hardy