Quotes About Reaction

The gasps catch from girl to girl like a brush fire.

It is the scorpion's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

Qwilleran closed the door and turned to Koko. 'How did you react to the noisy oaf?' Koko laid his ears back. Qwilleran thought, No one has ever called him kitty. A more appropriate form of address would be Your Excellency or Your Eminence.

Jason is one of those people who is like a Slinky; you always smile when you think of watching him fall down the stairs.

Good God. he said incredulously. You've got a black belt in purse attack, that's for damn sure.

Mary was startled. More people had winked at her that night than in the rest of her life total. What was the proper way to handle a wink? Were they ignored? Should she wink back? Aunt Ardith's lectures on proper behaviour hadn't covered winking.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

with every action theres an equal opposite reaction. With every problem, there's a solution: just a matter of taking action.

La découverte des réactions atomiques en chaîne ne constitue pas pour l'humanité un danger plus grand que l'invention des allumettes. Mais nous devons tout entreprendre pour supprimer le mauvais usage du moyen.

The first point in this model is: Feelings largely cause behavior. The way you feel, and how strongly, greatly influence how you will behave in a situation. If you get yourself overly anxious, angry, and upset about getting somewhere, you will likely drive like a nut.

When your heart begins to pound, your face gets hot, your thoughts race, your blood pressure skyrockets, and adrenaline surges through your body, you will seldom act in a rational way. Your rage may lead to a constant struggle to control your actions. Your fury itself may feel very uncomfortable and be a constant reminder that you are not dealing effectively with the world around you.

Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.

She's an expert on the subjunctive, as I think you may know.' This brought a sharp reaction from Unterholzer. He was the expert on the subjunctive, and it was intolerable that von Igelfeld should go around picking up–for that was what it amounted to–unauthorised experts on the subjunctive, just because they expressed a–misguided–enthusiasm for his work.

In other words, if you see a behavior that persists over time, there is likely a mechanism creating that consistent behavior.

Many "comfort" foods are involved in the histamine allergy-addiction cycle. You see, we tend to binge-eat the foods that we're allergic to. In the same way, those who are allergic to alcohol tend to binge-drink. We crave the high of the chemicals within these foods and drinks, as well as those our bodies release in reaction to them.

I nearly clutched my bosom and gasped like Melanie from Twelve Oaks. But of course I didn't. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank, The Hurricane Sisters

TV repeatedly triggers our orienting response—the instinctive reaction to pay attention to any sudden, changing, or novel stimulus. This orienting response evolved in the species because it helps us identify potential threats and react to them. Media producers use features such as edits, cuts, zooms, pans, and sudden noises to continually trigger our orienting response. In short, they exploit basic psychological and biological mechanisms to get and keep our attention.