Best 190 quotes in «reactions quotes» category

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

Any reaction is better than none.

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.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction. If we do not get a reaction quick, we will get it long when it does come.

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.