Quotes About Reaction

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow. But

situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow.

Fire is not a thing. It is a situation of temperature.

Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or "bad for us." The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination- we do.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's reaction to the plan is a good illustration of the wider attitude of the railroads. The Pennsy, as it was known, was the leading railroad of the age and saw itself as a cut above the others, a view encapsulated by its calling itself the "Standard Railway of the World.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say. That goes against everything I sing on my records. I have to be myself.

Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion.

I wanted to ask her if she meant to spend the night here as well, but I didn't want her to say yes. It could be that she was in some kind of mood and just wanted a nap and my question might force her to adopt a stance. She does that, I've noticed; she lashes out when she thinks she's been given a cue.

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

To take offense is to give offense.

MYTH When I feel criticized, I react defensively and I can't be objective. TRUTH I have the ability to discriminate, take what fits, and leave the rest.

It is not the event that causes our reactions but rather how we interpret the event, which makes us either confident or anxious.

Religion is a defensive reaction of nature against the dissolvent power of intelligence.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

what determines how well you survive chronic stress is how you react to it and whether you are able to shut it down.

The problem comes when something goes awry in an otherwise normal process—when the reaction becomes excessive or unyielding. Parts of the body-mind turn off, while other areas get locked

We can make our own choices. We get to choose how we react to all that happens to us.

I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because I couldn't find my microphone. Now that's damage.

Anna had the faculty of blushing.

When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.

Well, what is that to me? I can't see her!" she cried.

People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.