Automatic Action Quotes

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.

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

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Once you play regularly, it just becomes second nature to do things on the pitch.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.

I do a lot of things instinctively.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you.

You cannot train saving with your feet, but sometimes it is instinct. Sometimes it is quicker to go with the feet; going with the hands is sometimes more difficult. Even when I was young, I would go with my feet, it's something good for me.

Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is no need to reflect, because the action carries us forward as if by magic.

I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist, that I wouldn't just write full time. It's such a part of my life, and in some ways, it's a very unromantic part of my life. It's almost, to me, like breathing. I don't think about whether I like it or not.