Quotes About Reaction

But much of our current emphasis on independence is a reaction to dependence—to having others control us, define us, use us, and manipulate us.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of

Freedom doesn't mean you get to choose what happens to you. But you do get to choose how you react to it.

Anger caused mistakes.

at the sight of the sinking

From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.

make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.

From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate

When we latch on to an identity, it's easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting.

It's tempting to trivialize the power of metaphors. To each of the earlier examples, the natural response is to say, Well, of course the right metaphor is more useful. The other metaphor was wrong! Though that's a natural reaction, it's simplistic. The history of science isn't a series of switches from the wrong metaphor to the right one. It's a series of changes from worse metaphors to better ones, from less inclusive to more inclusive, from suggestive in one area to suggestive in another.

In The Blank Slate I argued that the modern denial of the dark side of human nature—the doctrine of the Noble Savage—was a reaction against the romantic militarism, hydraulic theories of aggression, and glorification of struggle and strife that had been popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Since one cannot defend a belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that affront to everything that makes their lives meaningful.

Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

We hate so fast and we love too slow

Two people may have one sensitivity, one action, one reaction and one feeling; it doesn't matter how much time and distance they have between themselves-that is the state of ultimate love.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Everyone in the room looks at him, horrified by the sight of unfettered glee in a shiva house, but in a minute or so he'll be done laughing, and then, to anyone who sees him, his tear-streaked face and red eyes will seem entirely appropriate.

Moments later, there was a loud, protracted crashing sound. "Motherfucker!" "What was that?" "I just backed through the garage door." "Jesus. You okay?" "I'm fine," she said. "The whole damn door came down. I'll just drive over it." "Drive carefully.

I'm not hurt. I'm appalled.