Quotes About Reaction

I think when a critic is baffled, he becomes angry. And since a great deal baffles them, they are usually angry.

Where feeling is reaction, emotion is adaptation. So feeling is an instantaneous, nonreflective (there's no time for reflection!) arising, but emotion is all about how we handle that feeling.

The woman looked at me as if I had proposed sodomy.

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Generating a rapidly changing environment—that is, engaging in activity that is so quick it is disorienting and appears uncertain or ambiguous to the enemy—inhibits the adversary's ability to adapt and causes confusion and disorder that, in turn, causes an adversary to overreact or underreact. Boyd closed the briefing by saying the message is that whoever can handle the quickest rate of change is the one who survives.

John was watching her walk away when Harriet found him. "John!" Chen jumped off his stool and flashed an unctuous smile, accelerating from zero to full-on asskiss faster than a screaming Tesla.

Jon sat in the Range Rover cocoon, listened to Amy sleep, and knew people were beyond the edge of the darkness. Talking and planning, positioning cars at egress points to cover the house, and setting up at the storage facility. No one knew how Amy would react, or which way this would go, so they had to be flexible. Jon resented their intrusion. The

Hess said, "What the fuck?" I said, "Temperamental." SACs aren't used to being cut off. I touched her arm. "We

When you turn your back on someone, they come running after you.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

Phineas leaped to his feet, giving Vanda a appalled look. Vanda! Why'd you do it? What? Vanda stood. Phineas slapped a hand against his brow. you can't attack these people jut because you hate Naruto!

Storytelling typically happens blindly fast. When we believe we're at risk, we tell ourselves a story so quickly that we don't even know that we're doing it.

What is this intermediate step? Just after we observe what others do and just before we feel some emotion about it, we tell ourselves a story. We add meaning to the action we observed. We make a guess at the motive driving the behavior. Why were they doing that? We also add judgment—is that good or bad? And then, based on these thoughts or stories, our body responds with an emotion.

When adrenaline does our thinking for us, our motives flow with the chemical tide.

When under attack, our heart can take a similarly sudden and unconscious turn. When faced with pressure and strong opinions, we often stop worrying about the goal of adding to the pool of meaning and start looking for ways to win, punish, or keep the peace.

i gotta stop saying how stupid could you be? I'm beginning to feel like people are taking as a challenge

I think my water just broke.' I took an instinctive step back. Because, gross. 'Omigod.

Rachel, Rachel, Rachel," he said, very still and unmoving. "Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You're like a frog, you know.

Will your dad freak if I kiss you good-bye?" he asked.

Uh, guys?" Jenks said, hovering at the window. "Fountain Square is on fire." "What?" I jumped to my feet and turned in one motion. Al rushed to the window, and we pressed our foreheads to the glass, looking down.

Son of a beaver biscuit…

Hysterics won't help." "Don't tell me what to do!" I exclaimed, my knees starting to shake. "I think best when I'm having hysterics. Just shut up and let me have them!

So now I'm popular?" Freya says. "They hate me, and I hit someone, and now they like me?

Oh my gods, when do you not sport wood? There are bathrooms in the back, so go burp the worm or whatever.--Regin