Quotes about Reaction

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

I put the car in Park and kill the ignition. When I do so, I feel the tidal-wave rush, as I knew I would—the shakes, the post-adrenaline, post-traumatic physical reaction.

I'm competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you're talking trash, you're gonna get a reaction out of me.

My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.

Endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not one to the thing but to your own estimate to it.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?

I already told you," said Adam. "There is no need to swear." "Sorry, it just fucking slipped out," said Zeb.

Response is always better than reaction.

If you're able to look at what's happening in your world and say, "There's the pattern," or "Wow, that's interesting, I wonder why," then you're far more likely to respond productively than if your reaction is "How dare he!

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.