Quotes About Reaction

Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.

You don't always have to defend yourself with your words. Sometimes your silence gives people a clue that you have better thoughts in mind.

Is something or someone causing your blood pressure to rise? Do your best to stay calm, even if you feel like throwing a fit. Acting out won't help anything, and it might just put you in a bad light. And if you throw caution to the wind, you could end up regretting it in a big way. Remember work on staying calm and trusting that others aren't out to get you.

It is your reaction to adversity,not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop..

If you see a bandwagon, its too late.

I think I swallowed a bug!

Observing his lopsided grin, I asked, "What?" "At this rate, you're going to be in possession of half my wardrobe before the weekends done." His words brought a light flush of color to my cheeks. Obviously deriving pleasure from my reaction, he added, "Don't worry, I'll let you know when I'm down to my underwear.

When I saw the car pulling into the driveway and I saw her getting out and walking towards the house, can you imagine Nadezhda, I performed involuntary excretion in my trousers.

Un simple gesto, una determinada forma de mirar, un comentario aparentemente trivial, puede desencadenar de manera automática y casi inmediata una gran reacción emocional.

I once had an artist in the old days who was so nervous he threw up during the gala opening of the show. The reviews read, 'artwork so bad, even the artist couldn't stomach it.' We

each of us has an explanatory style... And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Loud noises, bright lights, the motion of a passing car, all made him swoon.

We therefore tend to rely on willpower alone. This never works because the ideal sequence above is opposed by a stronger and more primitive one: Stimulus – Reaction. Without the right structures to keep it under control, Stimulus – Reaction will always tend to overwhelm Thought – Decision – Action.

The circumstances of a life must not dictate our terms of living it; that decision resides only in one's reaction to circumstance.

Sometimes when you're really scared, your amygdala instantly shuts out your higher brain, causing you to act on primitive instinct. Most of the time, however, the amygdala sizes up a situation before making its

intervene before the amygdala hits the boiling point, and the person's higher brain can stay in control.

Practice moving quickly from: Oh fuck! (reaction) to Oh God! (emotional release) to Oh Jeez (re-centre yourself) to Oh well (re-focus) to OK (you are ready to fix this)

The lower reptilian brain is the "fight-or-flight" part of your brain. This region of your brain is all about acting and reacting, without a lot of thinking going on. It can also leave you frozen in a perceived crisis—the "deer-in-the-headlights" response.

The audience cheered. I died a little inside. The rest is history.

No, NAKED GUY'S the stupid one here, naked guy -- NAKED GUY WENT AND MADE HULK ANGRY!!

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous.