Reactive People Quotes

#1. Reactive people ... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Stephen Covey

#2. Just as nuclear fuel will always be reactive, people will always be greedy. We need to enforce rules to balance natural greed with capital requirements so that greed can create productive risk taking and competition and not short-term extraction, otherwise known as theft.

Dylan Ratigan

#3. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

Stephen R. Covey

#4. The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility.

Stephen R. Covey

#5. You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

David Gray

#6. The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#7. The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.

Marisa Coughlan

#8. I would assume the case will never be closed.

Richard M. Helms

#9. Oh God. He's quoting Tolstoy and touching me. I'm done for.

Helena Hunting

#10. No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.

George Herbert

#11. I think so many people are reactive ... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

Ray Dalio

#12. I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person.

Harris Wittels

#13. Those who dare try and failure are courageous souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita