Reactions Quotes - Page 6

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

A big part of pain is the subjective reaction of trying to revolt against pain. If it's there, it's better to deal with it. Most of it is "I cannot stand it," and that component is enhancing pain so much.

And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanation―not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength!

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

Faith is your reaction to God's ability.

I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.

The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.

So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked. She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?' 'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.' 'Oh. Then. Nothing.' He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.

We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.