Reflexes Quotes

105 Reflexes quotes by 92 unique authors

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people… — Garrison Keillor
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same… — Antonin Artaud
Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to… — Dave Barry
It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized… — Alexander Herzen
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to… — Eve Arnold
It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us… — Jimmy Carr
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease… — Theodor Adorno
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a… — Bharati Mukherjee
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. — Magnus Hirschfeld
Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without… — Ricky Gervais
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' — Declan Donnellan
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's… — Carlos Ghosn
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. — Emma Goldman
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is… — Ernie Harwell
All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any… — Paris Hilton
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. — Norman Vincent Peale
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. — Steven Pinker
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an… — Vladimir Nabokov
to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge… — Alain de Botton

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