Ray Dalio Quotes

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

That's the problem, we do get used to things.

Learn to get used to it. Eels get used to skinning.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that's how it is.

The longer you experience a scene, you tend to accept what's going on.

Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.