Best 190 quotes in «reactions quotes» category

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all.

Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.

Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer is merely a 'firm' whose product is 'utility.'

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

One action produces a reaction; that is karma.

One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, oh, boy. I like this.

People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma.

...remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.

Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.

The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.