Best 190 quotes in «reactions quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

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.

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

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.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.