Quotes About Reaction

Every behavior is the product of an instinct trained by experience.

We heard her come halfway up the stairs, where she must have seen the bedroom light on. Again, the normal parent reaction would have been to say something like, You had better come out this moment or I am releasing the tiger! But Debbie was not a normal parent, so we heard her gigle and creep away, saying, Shhh! Rachel! Come with Mommy! Stuart is busy!

Stevie meant to smile and nod, but she ended up enacting the shrug emoticon.

She had always avoided personal reactions, but she was forced to break her rule when she saw the expression on his face. She burst out laughing.

He was accustomed to hostility; this kind of benevolence was more offensive than hostility.

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

Tig widened her eyes at Willa, suggesting she might be overdoing it.

The trouble with learning the backgrounds is that you end up wanting to deck somebody

Meg swore and hopped, nursing a bruised toe.

her feet got sweeped. "OW!" she hollered. "OW! OUCH! OW!

most disturbing part of the meeting had been Sarah's blatant dislike

There was a pause. She said, "I hate you." I nodded. "I know.

Three meters. I felt a fresh adrenaline dump in my torso, my limbs. His partners must have seen his face. Their shoulders tensed, their heads began to turn. Two meters. The guy to my right was closest. He was turning to his left, toward whatever had made his partner start to bug out. I saw the left side of his face as he came around, everything moving slowly through my adrenalized vision.

would show that inside twenty-one feet against a knife, trying to get a gun out is typically a losing bet, especially if you're backing straight up rather than getting off the line.

For the first time I saw her lose a little poise. Her head retracted a fraction in a movement that was not quite a flinch, and her eyes dilated in a way that told me she'd just received a little helping of adrenaline.

I felt the hairs on the back of my neck pop up, a fresh surge of adrenaline dump into my veins. My fight or flight reaction is finely honed, and this guy's presence was making it sing.

Certainly, forties science fiction can be seen as a reaction to or against the vision of a single man, John W. Campbell; in the fifties, H L Gold, Fred Phol, Anthony Boucher and a few others began to solicit stories and propound a science fiction of satire and doom, and in the sixties, Michael Moorcock and Harlan Ellison, by pressuring for and proclaiming a literature of catastrophe, got a great deal of it.

What these studies show is that when people are asked to give reasons for their preferences, they may struggle to find the words. Sometimes aspects of their reaction that are not the most important determinants of their overall feeling are nonetheless easiest to verbalize.

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.

our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is the center of our life.

accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

Mus skaudina ne skaud?s ?vykiai, bet m?s? reakcija ? tuos ?vykius.