Second Nature Quotes
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Custom is second nature.
— Saint Augustine
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.
— William S. Burroughs
You should practice these until they are your second nature.
— Arnold Robbins
I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
— Maggie Q
Working efficiently while a movie played was second nature to her by now, more comfortable than silence.
— John Darnielle
You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.
— Les Brown
Custom is almost a second nature.
— Plutarch
You'll understand when you're older. Or anyway not understanding will become second nature, and it won't matter.
— Gregory Maguire
Man must always imagine and believe in a "second" reality or a better world than the one that is given him by nature.
— Ernest Becker
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
— Brent Scowcroft
Habit is second nature.
— Michel De Montaigne
Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.
— Timothy Ferriss
If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.
— Jane Austen
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
— James Dyson
Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.
— Ernst W. Mayr
I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.
— Kasey Chambers
I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.
— Michael Phelps
Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.
— Mattie Stepanek
I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
— Bruce LaBruce
As you keep practicing, using your intuition will become a habit - almost second nature.
— Dr. Henry Naikien.Msc.D
Education is only second to nature.
— Horace Bushnell
And even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to her
— Milan Kundera
Make the second effort your second nature.
— Harvey MacKay
It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.
— Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
Habit is a second nature.
— Michel De Montaigne
To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well, that evil is ours.
— C.S. Lewis
Yes, nature has two faces: The pretty one and the ugly one, the disasters! Love the first face and be prepared for the second one!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
— Marcel Proust
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival ... It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'
— Declan Donnellan
Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.
— John Hutton
I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.
— Fabiola Gianotti
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
— Immanuel Kant
Spring gives hope that God believes in second chances.
— Toni Sorenson
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
— Colin Mochrie
Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
— Nancy Kerrigan
It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.
— Sara Sheridan
My incentive? Making a peaceful spirit second nature. And that is so worth the effort.
— Carlos Wallace
I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
— Jake Owen
You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.
— Rick Perlstein
I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.
— John Fante
Comedy is second nature for me.
— Anthony Anderson
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea ...
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The art of hiding in plain sight used to be second nature, and now it has become the whole of him
— Helen Dunmore
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
— Mario Puzo
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
— Seneca The Younger
Habit is second nature, or rather ... ten times nature.
— William James
The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.
— Frank Luntz
Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
— Hamza Yusuf
When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time
— Svetlana Alexievich
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
— George W. Bush
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening ... that's the art.
— Bette Midler
Habits are learned. You can cultivate good habits to replace old ones. Keep working on these habits until they become second nature to you.
— Amanda Hopkins
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
— Blaise Pascal
Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.
— James Van Praagh
It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
— Alice Childress
Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history;
nature, second.
Folly is the worst speaker in history;
fools, second. — Matshona Dhliwayo
nature, second.
Folly is the worst speaker in history;
fools, second. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
— Helen Rowland
Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.
— Isaac Asimov
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.
— Ilana Mercer
His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
THERE'S OLD SORROW in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense. Causes
— Sebastian Barry
Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.
— Amy Wilensky
Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
— Michel De Montaigne
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.
— C. JoyBell C.
The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.
— Rob Paulsen
For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
— Danny Elfman
Man owes two solemn debts
one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first. — Douglas William Jerrold
one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first. — Douglas William Jerrold
Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.
— William Golding
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.
— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.
— Henry Edward Manning
Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...
{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} — Carl Friedrich Gauss
{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature.
— Guthrie Govan
You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's
a second nature with me - and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely. — Jean-Paul Sartre
a second nature with me - and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely. — Jean-Paul Sartre
It has to become second nature, for a programmer, to notice when a concept is begging to be abstracted into a new word.
— Marijn Haverbeke
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
— Democritus
Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.
— Rocco DiSpirito