Reactions Quotes · Page 4

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

— Maria Montessori

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

— Lemn Sissay

Many a healthy reaction has proved fatal.

— Humphrey B. Neill

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

— William James

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

— Bob Woodward

“Can an absence of action be construed as a negative action?”

— Tamar Cohen

You have the ability to choose your reactions.

— Steve Maraboli

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

— Rita Mae Brown

Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

— John Anthony West

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

— Noam Chomsky

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There are no failures. There are only experiences and our reactions to them.

— Anonymous

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

— Vernon Howard

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

— Mark Lawrence

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

— Michael Eisner

[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.

— Clare Short

My fear is if I expose myself, not so much that I'll be hurt, but that the reaction will be "Is that…

— Michael Ian Black

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through…

— Yanni

I was in Studio 54 one time; it was great. But I'm not a discotheque guy. Sometimes, if I had a new…

— Giorgio Moroder

We're beginning to find out that many of the school shootings are side reactions to Prozac-like medications. That's a very big hidden…

— Michael Savage

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't…

— Lorna Luft

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired,…

— Dan Brown

One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And…

— Jill Scott

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then…

— Anatoly Karpov

Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out…

— Eckhart Tolle

While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place…

— Neel Burton

Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds?…

— Anne Bishop

In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest…

— Susanna Kaysen

So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly…

— Roger McDonald

People don't stop me on the street and throw things at me. But I'm aware of what that dynamic is, so whenever…

— Pablo Schreiber

CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images…

— Darren Aronofsky

Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz…

— Miles Davis

Forgiveness and the release of the past open the creative flow of life, supporting all levels of mind, heart, body, emotion, and…

— Jamie Sams

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer…

— Adriana Trigiani

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then,…

— Mikhail Bakunin

When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army…

— David L. Ulin

We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or…

— John Cage

When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to…

— Stephen King