Quotes About Reacting Quickly

#1. As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

Michael Jordan

#2. A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

Spike Lee

#3. Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

Harold Ford Jr.

#4. Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

Conan O'Brien

#5. To her you're just a play thing; she'll make you out to be a king, then she'll set fire to your throne.

Phar West Nagle

#6. You can talk about depression as a "chemical imbalance" all you want, but it presents itself as an external antagonist - a "demon," a "beast," or a "black dog," as Samuel Johnson called it. It could pounce at any time, even in the most innocuous setting.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#7. You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

William Monahan

#8. Abandoned babies are unfortunate unwanted results of a once urgent desire to have an orgasm

David Cross

#9. There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.

Fulton J. Sheen

#10. Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

Dallas Roberts

#12. The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.

Pope Leo XIII

#14. Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.

Sarada Devi

#15. He had forgotten how convincing the world could look, how sure of itself: its outlines and edges; it's gradations, recessions, protrusions; it's startling and vulgar colors.

Gregory Maguire

#16. With fitness, I do Bikrams hot yoga. The gym that I have in my building is amazing. I love to do cardio and weights there.

Shay Mitchell

#17. I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like, 10 and 7 when they moved in with me.

Steve Earle