Trained Response Quotes

And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies.

We are taught to attack the forces of evil and not those doing evil. That is what we are trained in.

I am in a closed state where I'm just reacting and moving based on my instincts, knowledge, technique and years of experience.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.

It is a truism, of course, that in “democratic” states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.

Friends sometimes ask me, 'When you get the ball what are you thinking?' But you do not have time to think. You have to do it. It's not instinct; that's not the right word, but it's how you feel in this moment. You sense it. It's trained, but it's trained inside you. It makes you faster in the moment.

In all my life, I've been trained that when there's a big problem, you run toward it.

I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.