“Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions… — Gyalwa Dokhampa Copy Share Image
Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience. It's very gratifying… — Adam Wingard Copy Share Image
Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read… — Oliver Jackson-Cohen Copy Share Image
That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this… — Joe Fafard Copy Share Image
Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a… — Wilson Greatbatch Copy Share Image
In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action.… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable. — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a… — Andre Derain Copy Share Image
We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events. — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with… — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those… — Catriona Le May Doan Copy Share Image
I was in a Paris for four or five days and I couldn't believe the reaction I got there. It was just… — Ted Shackelford Copy Share Image
This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
I wish they would see the real person in me. One day, they will know I'm not here for the show. My… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
