Quotes About Reaction

The instincts and reaction and having to move - that's what football is. You have to learn how to deal with different adjustments, and know how to react to different types of plays. And do it on the fly.

A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.

Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.

As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.

If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

When Mahavishnu came out in '71, the unbelievable reaction to the band was a real shock to me. It was a shock to everybody.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

When you have trained your mind and your nerves to realise this idea of the world's nondependence on you or on anybody, there will then be no reaction in the form of pain resulting from work.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

Most of our difficulties in our daily lives come from being unable to hold our minds in this way. For instance, if a man does evil to us, instantly we want to react evil, and every reaction of evil shows that we are not able to hold the Chitta down; it comes out in waves towards the object, and we lose our power.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

The brown world, like the yellow world, is to-day in acute reaction against white supremacy.

We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage.' I believe the technical term is 'being an ass.