Quotes About Reaction

When you try to extinguish a tantrum by ignoring it, the first response you always get is called an extinction burst. People will do whatever it is you are trying to ignore louder, longer, and more enthusiastically. This might make you believe that ignoring them isn't working, but what it actually means is that it is.

Y además es tonto, y eso le hace aún más peligroso, porque siempre puedes prever cómo va a reaccionar un canalla, pero no un estúpido.

A veces me enfurezco. Le digo lo que siento, repito «mierda» infinitas veces. Su sonrisa me devuelve los insultos

What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.

The experience of defeat, or more particularly the manner in which a leader reacts to it, is an essential part of what makes a winner.

I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me.

What? Listen,you..." And then, strangely enough, she calls me a female dog.

What is it?" She hissed through clenched teeth. "What's wrong?" He bent down toward her. "I was just thinking how beautiful you looked." The punch was impressive, both accurate and strong. Jette's fist caught her husband squarely on the jaw. It was an absolute peach of a shot, and it propelled him backward into the chest of drawers.

I doubt we we'll find anything," he told Jason, though he was watching O'Dell's reaction out of the corner of his eye. "but you can never let the dog know. She takes her leads from her handler." Even as he said this, Grace looked back at him. "As far as she's concerned," he continued in a casual tone, purposely not using her name, " I need to relay that I'm just as excited as she is. And that this search is going to be more interesting that piss on a fence post.

The anger that rose in him was a new thing.

The child can only react by denying the loss and living in the fantasy that the parent will return with love.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

The research suggests that praise may have [a negative, unintended] effect, directing attention away from the task [at hand] and toward your reaction.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

You can more easily partner with God instead of making the situation worse by reacting emotionally.

There's a knee jerk reaction in Washington when something isn't perfect to just add more money, add more personnel, it'll all be OK. That's not true, especially with complex issues like veterans health care.

Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.

Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.

I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn't like it when you join in.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

When I went to college, I came across MMA. My first reaction was, 'No, I don't want to fight. I just want to learn jujitsu.' I didn't know what UFC was; in my mind it was this violent, ugly sport. But when I watched my first amateur fight, I fell in love with the sport and thought it was beautiful.

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

For me, watching people get out of control, and be indulgent and dramatic was very silly.

Something like 'Psycho,' which is this psychological thing that slowly, slowly, slowly builds, and actually it's a much more powerful reaction you have when it assumes that you're intelligent as you're watching it. I want them to make me believe that whatever's happening could really happen, and then it becomes much more frightening.