Reacting And Responding Quotes

#1. I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

Melody Beattie

#2. When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

Jeff Davidson

#3. We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.

Michel Foucault

#4. A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!

Nina Dobrev

#5. Mind is tricky. If I say this is very difficult, the mind says, "This is so difficult it is beyond you." If I say this is very simple, the mind says, "This is so simple that only fools can believe in it." And mind goes on rationalizing things, always escaping from doing.

Osho

#6. This leads me to ask how it came to be that Pluto is Mickey's dog, but Mickey is not Pluto's mouse. Something is awry in the taxonomic class of mammals in the Disney universe. I

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. Stop reacting to the stereotypes and start responding to the individual.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#8. When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.

Billy Kennedy

#10. By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.

Steve Maraboli

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

Bill Johnson

#12. But he did decide vegetatively, as a bean when once tossed aside must decide if it ought to germinate or had better let things be.

Patrick Suskind

#13. All sadness is a tantrum.

Byron Katie

#14. There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

Dan Jenkins