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Quotes About Reaction

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.
~ Jason Reitman
To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.
~ Louis C. K.
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
~ Katee Sackhoff
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Cos it's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'Aaaaaagghhh!!' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.
~ Tommy Cooper
So I went to the dentist. He said Say Aaah. I said Why? He said My dog's died.'
~ Tim Vine
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
~ Unknown
Love is speaking and acting out your personality while hoping for a reaction in relativity.
~ Unknown
The mind is constantly trawling through memories to find those that echo our current emotional state. For example, if you feel threatened, the mind instantly digs up memories of when you felt endangered in the past, so that you can spot similarities and find a way of escaping.
~ Mark Williams
glared at him. My
~ Unknown
The Austrian-born Israeli philosopher Martin Buber describes this quality of presence that life demands of us: "In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Si quieres confundir cualquier situación puedo decirte cómo hacerlo: Mezcla lo que hice con tu reacción al respecto.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Emotional volatility is not the most reliable leadership tool. When you get angry, you are usually out of control. It's hard to lead people when you've lost control. You may think you have a handle on your temper, that you can use your spontaneous rages to manipulate and motivate people. But it's very hard to predict how people will react to anger.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
~ Unknown
I think the general opinion is that it's one thing to be strong and go after something and fight to help others when you're in control. Anyone can make themselves look good if they work hard enough at it. But it's the moments that take all that control away completely when you find out who a person is. How they react to not having a say in the matter.
~ Unknown
Practice a poker face and the art of speaking very calmly. You have a significant advantage in this strategy also, because the sociopath's brain processes emotional cues far less spontaneously than does the normal brain. The sociopath wants a large, unmistakable reaction. Do not give it to him.
~ Martha Stout
Ugh, emotions.
~ Martha Wells
The bad thing about having emotions is, you know, OH SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME.
~ Martha Wells
I didn't react visibly, because I'm used to clients making bad decisions, and I was getting a lot of practice at controlling my expression.
~ Martha Wells
I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.
~ Martha Wells
Pin-Lee leaned over me and I said, "This unit is at minimal functionality and it is recommended that you discard it." It's an automatic reaction triggered by catastrophic malfunction. Also, I really didn't want them to try to move me because it hurt bad enough the way it was. "Your contract allows—" "Shut up," Mensah snapped. "You shut the fuck up. We're not leaving you.
~ Martha Wells
I had cycled out of horrified that they wanted to talk to me about my feelings into grateful that she had ordered them not to.
~ Martha Wells
Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him.
~ Martha Wells