Reflex Quotes
71 quotes by 63 authors
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide…
— Alex Karras
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Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.
— Ram Dass
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A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all…
— Dave Barry
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Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray…
— Oswald Chambers
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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if…
— Jean Paul
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than…
— James Surowiecki
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Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.
— Ram Dass
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I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Easy? You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the…
— Kim Cattrall
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
— Victor Hugo
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The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.
— Emerson Fittipaldi
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense…
— Terry Eagleton
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Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.
— Kenneth Keating
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Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the…
— Francis Schaeffer
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For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine…
— Edgar Cayce
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
— W. Edwards Deming
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I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put…
— Pete Newell
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality…
— Scott Stossel
Who Wrote These Reflex Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 71 Reflex Quotes, led by these top contributors: