Quotes About Reaction

How does anyone know from moment to moment what to say or do next until he senses the reaction to what he just did? He doesn't know. Life is always action/reaction. No monologues. No prepared speeches. An improvisation no matter how we mentally rehearse our big moment.

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.

Oh, big surprise. Something wasn't going to be easy. I tried to rouse myself, to react. I failed.

Criticism is the defense reaction that scared people use to protect themselves against change.

Controlando los pensamientos y la manera de reaccionar a los acontecimientos de la vida, uno empieza a controlar su destino. —

No importa lo que te ocurra en la vida, porque tienes la capacidad de elegir tu reacción

cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

All of my life I have had a tendency to overreact to things. It seems to run in my family. But I do not want to be like the others. They made a lot of trouble for themselves that way. The full-scale, all-or-nothing reaction may be all right if you always win, but that way also lies high tragedy or at least opera if you happen to be up against something extraordinary.

Far sooner than Rockefeller, the railroads had foreseen the political reaction and inevitable defeat.

He doesn't act on analysis.

Your speech at the First Presbyterian Church has caused me a great deal of annoyance.

Casey Nice said, "Jesus Christ." "I don't think so," I said. "No beard. No sandals.

Joe stared at him. "You let her do that?" Lamonnier shrugged. An expressive, Gallic shrug, just like my mother's.

The guy froze for an imperceptible period, just a blink of time, thinking as fast as he was about to act, and then he swooped down, twisting, his right hand whipping through a long arc, aiming to snatch up the gun and grab it tight and whirl it away to safety.

No," Burke said. "Thank God." So

You're a bad-tempered type of guy, Finlay,' I said, 'Bad temper never made a anybody a criminal.

Still no reaction. No movement. Just total stillness, and a raised chin, and an averted gaze, and a dignified and implacable silence, like a veteran salesman insulted by a counteroffer.

9. Un disparo

if a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.

Conscious thought is a great aid in designing a car or deciphering the mathematical laws of nature, but for avoiding snake bites or cars that swerve into your path or people who may mean to harm you, only the speed and efficiency of the unconscious can save you.

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else - Or else what? said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. Or else it doesn't, you know.

she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

To its original readers in 1932 Sunset Song was a book in itself; they could not know it was the first part of a trilogy. Many reacted with disgust to its frank treatment of sex and childbearing, its scorn for the rich and powerful, its sometimes strident anti-clericalism.