Quotes About Reactions

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

It is wholly unsurprising that studies show an increase in anxiety, depression and mental illness in young people today. Rather than being a demonstration of 'snowflake'-ism it is a wholly understandable reaction to a world whose complexities have squared in their lifetimes. A perfectly reasonable response to a society propelled by tools that can provide endless problems but no answers.

Things don't have feelings. Events don't. Places don't. But people do. And things and events and places can create feelings in people . . . trigger an amazing range of individual reactions.

A story is a succession of motivations and reactions.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.—Noel Coward

Slightly said I was having "lady's hysterics". One of the twins mentioned something he'd heard about women going crazy twelve times a year.

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

The simple truth is this: Most humans are very much alike. The simple and obvious truth is that there are very few variables to what a person might do, think, fear or desire in any given situation.

That was a mistake: to have been emotional, to have been seen and heard to be emotional,

Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

Normally we try to avoid what we don't like. However, in a retreat, if we stay, we begin to see how our mental reactions actually make things harder or easier. The process highlights how opinionated and self-centered we are in familiar activities and how much we like to stay in comfortable routines. We resent being corrected as we make mistakes in learning the apparently arbitrary rules, and then we see how easily our egos are affronted.

In fact, losing feels about two times as bad to us as winning feels good to us.

The boos and critical words from sports writers affect pros more than anyone else.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

He made no self-accusations: never any more did he reproach himself for feelings that were natural and sincere. He accepted all his reactions as a part of him, unchangeable, unmoral.

I don't feed off of the boos, I don't feed off anything like that... No one likes to get booed, no one likes to get cussed out, no one likes to get yelled at by 20,000 fans when you go places.

In this job, you accept criticism and give answers on the field.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.