Reacting Quotes

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed.

Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.

God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

The process of living is the process of reacting to stress.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me.

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?

We did have one work where it looked like the fibreglass was discolouring, but it turned out it was reacting to the foam it was packed against in storage. We repaired it and sent it back with better packing.

Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.

If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.