Quotes About Reactive

It's an Event. Events bypass anger, straight to damage control.

The environmental movement up till now has necessarily been reactive. We have been clear about what we don't like. But we also need to say what we would like. We need to show where hope lies. Ecological restoration is a work of hope.

In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient. The agent acts. The patient is passive.

I am very reactive and malleable. I have to figure out when to be hands on and hands off. If I am hands on all the time, I can't do too much. But my attitude works in a certain way. So the idea is to spread your personality, your attitude.

One of the telltale characteristics of the you and me Adaptive Child is that it is automatic, a knee-jerk response.

This reactive approach to relationships is inherently individualistic.

With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.

After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

It changed their attitude from reactive and critical to active and creative.

Because President Obama had an overall strategy, military and civilian leaders under his command could make reactive decisions that advanced the president's goals. In the military, we call that commander's intent: When there's a decision to be made and you don't have exact guidance at that moment, you at least know overall what your boss wants.

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

I'm a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional.

Most people let their reactive mental process run a lot of the show, especially where the too-much-to-do syndrome is concerned.

Take a deep breath and focus on your purpose—your Yes—in this situation. Ask yourself what you really want and what is really important here. In other words, shift from being reactive and focused on No, to being proactive and focused on Yes.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

I could see where I'd mistaken drama and conflict for life, which meant years of living reactively instead of generatively, a life I let be determined by circumstances and the choices of others. We like to think life happens to us, but pretty much everything in your life is there because you wanted it, even if unconsciously. Results, I have learned, don't lie.

Being reactive is like experiencing the world on choppy seas, always at the whim of the weather.

The difference between being reactive and being responsive is the difference between night and day.

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

Our foreign policy has become an aggressive assertion of military superiority in a defensive and reactive mode, seeking to protect us against growing and invisible threats instead of addressing the root causes of those threats.

I'm thin-skinned in a way that's just dumb.

You can make invisible ink out of milk, lemon juice, saliva, vinegar, even soapy water—anything that will oxidize when you heat it.