Best Reactions Quotes

Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

Don’t be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there’s a reaction.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body’s reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

An emotion is your body’s reaction to your mind.

Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.

When you’re younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.

It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn’t it? Edilio grinned. Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it’s a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

You get reactions and you connect to people and I love Twitter.

With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they’re doing, so you’re learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with.

Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating involved. The sex scenes are very uncomfortable because that’s something to be protected, so you have a visceral reaction to not exploit that.

I don’t mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I’m out, I’m out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.

No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they’re high drama. It’s also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That’s how I knew they’d hit.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction…

You’re really creative when you’re in an environment that you don’t know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.

For every positive change you make in your life, something else also changes for the better – it creates a chain reaction.