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Quotes About React

Virtually all animals—single-celled organisms as well as humans—are conditioned to react in predictable ways, some of which we can modify and some of which are more difficult to change.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
You always have to reset your volume for the venue you are in. Sometimes the tubes can have you scratching your head because they react differently at different volumes.
~ Joe Satriani
Voters should absolutely know that a future president has the instincts to react to real-life and unrehearsed situations.
~ Richard Grenell
I love South By because people are more relaxed here, and people are a little more off guard. They say things and react more freely than Sundance or Cannes. I love the feel of this festival.
~ Jason Blum
The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]
~ Werner Herzog
Most people look to music to validate their tastes, rather than simply react to what they hear.
~ Daniel Nester
Merely understanding a space and how the rules make it work isn't enough, though. We also need to understand how it will react to change to exercise power over it. This is why games progress over time. There are almost no games that take just one turn.*
~ Raph Koster
I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.
~ Hannibal Buress
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.
~ Kage Baker
Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
~ Jennifer Beals
They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them
~ Robin Williams
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.
~ Sugar Ray Robinson
To respond is positive, to react is negative.
~ Zig Ziglar
When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.
~ Zig Ziglar
When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.
~ Bob Proctor
I have always been a pupil of the great Bismarck, in that it is far better to try to anticipate and alter events rather than simply react to them.
~ William Christie
Hob is not meant to Think. I see and then I Do. I do not put things together to make sense.
~ William Mayne
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
~ Dorothy Parker
Life just happens, Alice. What makes us special is how we react to it.
~ Robert McKay, Wonderland
Then again, when dealing with the illicit trade we orchestrate, it rarely is. As a high-ranking man of The Clan, I've learned to pivot and react. My instincts are primed.
~ Jane Henry
Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem.
~ Jason Fried
The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Sometimes the 'fault' you perceive in another isn't even there. It is a total misinterpretation, a projection by a mind conditioned to see enemies and to make itself right or superior. At other times, the fault may be there, but by focusing on it, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else, you amplify it. And what you react to in another, you strengthen in yourself.
~ Eckhart Tolle
It is no longer real, but just an illusion that I make real for my own amusement. To know the self we must make the mountains move. All we need is just an insight; not much, just a flash, a moment in which no reflection occurs. These moments go on all the time, and all the time we close up against them. We close up against a loss of self, we react, we clench, we adopt one or other strategy.
~ Albert Low