Joseph Fiennes Quotes

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

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

Habit is stronger than reason.

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.

I don't act; I react.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.

Acting to me is always reacting.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Custom is second nature.

The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.

When you do something all of your life, it's still ingrained in you.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

If this is how you’re going to react, I’ll freak out more often.

There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

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.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

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