Quotes About Reaction

When you see me running, its already too late." Harry Hubbard

To fuss is human; to rant, divine!

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

Krebs cycle, discovered in 1937 by Hans Krebs but invented over millions of years of evolution at the dawn of life. It is the eight-stroke chemical reaction that turns fuel into energy in the process of metabolism that is essential to all life, from bacteria to redwoods.

The expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de la Vega.)

What could be more American, after all, than being an immigrant and then, after a few decades, fearing immigration and reacting against it?

The specific nuclear reaction that is needed to make carbon is a rather improbable one. It requires three nuclei of helium to come together to fuse into a single nucleus of carbon.

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an 'ism becomes so involved in reaction against other 'isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.

In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

The average citizen is the world's most efficient censor. His own mind is the greatest barrier between him and the facts. His own "logic-proof compartments," his own absolutism are the obstacles which prevent him from seeing in terms of experience and thought rather than in terms of group reaction.

It's not the power you possess, but using the power of the opposition against itself that changes things. It's called political jujitsu [an Alinsky phrase]. You must go outside the opponent's [Big Boys] experience. You aim the action for the inevitable reaction, knowing that the reaction is more important than your action itself.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

When you are aware that you are being triggered, rather than simply reacting, you can remain detached, and separate your emotions from your true self. Tolle

If instead it reacted it meant that precedents had failed me and I was wrong; and the only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.

My long expected warning came to me when I noticed that, one after another, those stocks which had been the leaders of the market reacted several points from the top and—for the first time in many months—did not come back. Their race evidently was run, and that clearly necessitated a change in my trading tactics.

An unnatural action holds unnatural reaction; indeed, it affirms and displays a penalty, not the immunity.