Quotes About Reaction

This same kind of overreaction occurs when an ending is viewed as symbolic of some larger loss. The minor layoff in a company that has never had layoffs before is an example. It isn't the loss of the particular individuals—it's the loss of the safety people felt from the no-layoff policy.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only

el Buda examinó también la mente y encontró que, en términos amplios y globales, constaba de cuatro procesos: consciencia (viññ??a), percepción (sañña), sensación (vedar?) y reacción (sa?kh?ra).

Cada vez que los sentidos entran en contacto con algún objeto, los cuatro procesos mentales se suceden a la velocidad del rayo y se repiten en cada momento de contacto subsiguiente; lo hacen a tal velocidad que no tenemos consciencia de lo que sucede, esta consciencia sólo se desarrolla hasta llegar al nivel consciente cuando una reacción determinada se ha repetido durante un largo período de tiempo y ha tomado una forma pronunciada e intensa.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful, as the case may be. Without the bodily states following on the perception, the latter would be purely cognitive in form, pale, colorless, destitute of emotional warmth.

Religion… is a man's total reaction upon life.

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

If Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist wasn't addicted to the pain-killing drug his doctor prescribed, but instead it was just that the drug had 'established an interrelationship with the body, such that if the drug is removed precipitously, there is a reaction,' you needn't question that his decisions might have been influenced by his drug addiction.

She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.

A caricature of this result," Butterfield adds, "is to be seen in a popular view that is still not quite eradicated: the view that the Middle Ages represented a period of darkness when man was kept tongue-tied by authority—a period against which the Renaissance was the reaction and the Reformation the great rebellion."14

If a violent act is violent only in virtue of some antecedent violent intention, it is equally true that an intention to do violence is revealed only when someone acts violently.

Russell didn't reply. He was dumbstruck by

The things other people said or did would always give room to take offense, if you were of a mind to take offense. Therefore the fault wasn't in the other people.

Part of the resistance of Westerners to becoming patrons is that they react negatively to the idea of participating in a society that is basically built on institutionalized inequality.121

Living from the Creator Orientation is actually more challenging. In the Victim Orientation, I didnt have to exercise conscious choice; I just reacted to my circumstances.

Sa réaction était excessive. En défendant ainsi son territoire avec Markus, elle trahissait son trouble. Ce trouble qu'elle était toujours incapable de définir. Le Larousse s'arrête là où le cœur commence.

Il arrive si souvent qu'une action trop spontanée soit contre-productive

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. —CARL JUNG

The main political reaction to our awareness that half the time we are engaged in utterly meaningless or even counterproductive activities—usually under the orders of a person we dislike—is to rankle with resentment over the fact there might be others out there who are not in the same trap. As a result, hatred, resentment, and suspicion have become the glue that holds society together. This is a disastrous state of affairs. I wish it to end.

Jim Cooper, a former LAPD officer turned sociologist, has observed that the overwhelming majority of those who end up getting beaten or otherwise brutalized by police turn out to be innocent of any crime. "Cops don't beat up burglars," he writes. The reason, he explained, is simple: the one thing most guaranteed to provoke a violent reactions from police is a challenge to their right to, as he puts is, "define the situation." (p. 80)

There is every reason to believe that sceptics and non-conformists exist in every human society; what varies is how others react to them.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.