Quotes About Reaction

The whole country's going to puke blood when they read it.

There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we've reached the limit.

The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

The visceral level is fast: it makes rapid judgments of what is good or bad, safe or dangerous, and sends appropriate signals to the muscles (the motor system) and alerts the rest of the brain.

It is a pretty good idea to make some noises when you are at a play.

I am willing to express a theory. I am willing to admit I'm afraid. I'm willing to contradict something I've said before. I'm willing to have a knee-jerk reaction, even a wrong one. I'm willing to apologize. I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

involuntarily

was surprised at his reaction. "So it was a brawl," he said, with childish delight.

This always shocked me like a momentary glare of insanity.

Jack is reacting rather than acting. And as long as she keeps doing that, she's not going to change fate.

Una segunda evidencia es que "veía a los prevaricadores" y se contrariaba por lo que veía a su alrededor

When stress becomes a habit mentally, emotionally, and physically, a default setting on our inner dial, then it becomes "normal" and we no longer notice its presence. But the stress is still there, and it affects how we perceive, feel, and react to events in our lives. And stress is the major cause of anxiety.

The beauty of life is that every action is like a boomerang.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

Oh sweet cheeze-us!" I wailed, and dropped butt-first onto the table. "Ohhh! Cheeze-us-crust!" I

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?"

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic.

She knew it happened, but now that it had happened and to people near her, she couldn't even absorb it enough to fear it thoroughly.

Things are wrong and people misbehave, causing our hatred and suffering to arise. But however painful our experiences may be, they are just painful experiences until we add the response of aversion or hatred. Only then does suffering arise. If we react with hatred and aversion, these qualities become habitual. Like a distorted autoimmune response, our misguided reaction of hatred does not protect us; rather, it becomes the cause of our continued unhappiness.

Now consider your reader's psychological reactions when confronted with a concept-threatening change in the opening of your novel. Mr. Reader begins to worry. So far, so good; he may be willing to worry for a long time. But in today's hurried, impatient world, that Reader can't be expected to worry passively about the same vague and unchanging bad situation for several hundred pages. He needs something a bit more concrete to worry about.

As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife.

Could you just gather your shock and confusion into a little handkerchief-size and save it for later.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that knowing how you should be reacting to a loss has anything to do with how you react when it's your loss.