Quotes about Reaction
I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.
- Danny Boyle
Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.
- CS Lewis
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
- Brigham Young
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
- Epictetus
Anger takes everything personally, as if everything is an intentional act to make your life miserable.
- Edward Welch
Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them.
- Albert Ellis
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
- Aristotle
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.
- Richard Baxter
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The opposite of contemplation is not action, it is reaction.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz