Top 100 To React Quotes
#1. Are you so scared people will hate you?"
"What?" I stare at him, not knowing how
to react. "What are you talking about?"
He gestures at the phone. "Your emails are
like one big cry. Kiss, kiss, hug, hug, please
like me, please like me!
Sophie Kinsella
#2. Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
Epictetus
#3. The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order to inspire, you need to react to it. And, if it doesn't penetrate your mind, you can't react to it.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#4. Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.
Vladimir Kramnik
#5. Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.
Rush Limbaugh
#6. Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret.
Lori Deschene
#7. We all have choices in the way we react to the words we hear. Our lives and the lives of all those around us will be significantly improved if we choose to react positively rather than negatively.
Ben Carson
#8. When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.
Marc Webb
#9. Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.'
Issan Dorsey
#10. Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#11. My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.
George A. Romero
#12. Startups aren't about reading the crystal ball; they're about your ability to react.
Matt Blumberg
#13. We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.
Sarah Winter
#14. When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?
Matthew S. Williams
#15. In the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.
Lisa Unger
#16. But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.
Guy Forget
#17. As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you. To
Susan Forward
#18. Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.
Bruce Beutler
#19. We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#20. It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially [comedy], it gives me different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me,.
Ellen DeGeneres
#21. You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
Robert Barry
#22. Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
Joyce Meyer
#23. Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
David Harsanyi
#24. I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.
Jenna Dewan
#25. To react, is to be A slave to someone else's actions. Sometimes, A warrior is faced with the decision to strike pre-emptively, trusting his intuition, wisdom and years of training
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#26. Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.
Eckhart Tolle
#27. Everyone's had shit in their lives. Some people have it worse than others. But no one can turn you into a bad person, just like no one can turn you into a good one. We're all dealt our hands in life, and how we choose to react is entirely up to us. That's free will.
Kelley York
#28. You don't scare me. You're dominance does. I'm not sure how to react around you, to your leopard. If I'm to touch you, to comfort you. Especially since you're my mate.
Lia Davis
#29. To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
Anthony De Mello
#30. Sometimes I feel like people don't even know how to react in some situations because of online culture. Since many things are online, you might not react to something that is happening live.
Rob Zombie
#31. The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.
Jim Drain
#32. I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at all. "The slight trip syndrome," we call it. With tragedy one can get away with things a bit more because audiences don't always know how to react.
Peter Bowles
#33. I love you," she whispered, gazing up into his pale gray eyes.
He smiled crookedly, for a moment looking at her with a dazzled air. He had, she realized sadly, no experience hearing those words. He didn't know how to react. "I figured as much."
This time, she didn't hit him.
Connie Brockway
#34. I guess it's a lot better to initiate change while you can than it is to try to react and adjust to it. Maybe we should move our own Cheese." "What
Spencer Johnson
#35. These were lobbyists - many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
Ron Suskind
#36. Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same.
Isabella Rossellini
#37. The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.
Seth Godin
#38. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation
either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#39. Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.
Joaquin Phoenix
#40. The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn't help but notice that all this time, she was secretly watching me.
"You are beautiful."
I took my eyes off my phone and I saw the girl talking to me. I was embarrassed and didn't know what to say or how to react.
Nico J. Genes
#41. You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.
Greil Marcus
#42. Both she and Umfraville might be said to represent forms of revolt, and nothing dates people more than the standards from which they have chosen to react.
Anthony Powell
#43. When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.
Peter Mayhew
#44. If something's wrong with my body, I make sure to address it right away and not try to let it linger because it creates a bigger problem. You just have to understand your body, and when your body tells you something you just have to react.
Champ Bailey
#45. I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.
Robbie Fowler
#46. When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.
Gerhard Richter
#47. My contention is that especially young, recently trained engineers are in a position to recognize and to react on a presumptive anomaly: They are trained within the technological frame but have low enough inclusion to question the basic assumptions of that frame.
Wiebe E. Bijker
#48. There are 100 ways to react to spilled milk. Your chance to show love.
Margaret Aranda
#49. When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'
Aaron Rodgers
#50. I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.
Robert Pattinson
#51. I just invite people to share a secret with me. It's not like I'm a psychiatrist who's going to react to it or a priest who's going to give you something to do. When you let it go, there's kind of this void and I think people like that.
Frank Warren
#52. When people expect you to react to their nonsense, remain calm and silent. It's good for the soul and makes them think twice.
Karen Gibbs
#53. I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.
Anne Parillaud
#54. The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
Peter Eisenman
#55. It is easy to react if everything is going great.
Vince Gill
#56. When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'
Noam Chomsky
#57. People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.
Phillip C. McGraw
#59. It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.
Casey Spooner
#60. Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#61. Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.
Michael Schumacher
#62. A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?'
Wallace Shawn
#64. To respond is positive, to react is negative.
Zig Ziglar
#65. Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Deepak Chopra
#66. She didn't get angry with anyone, because that would mean having to react, having to do battle with the enemy and then having to face unforeseen consequences, such as vengeance.
Paulo Coelho
#67. The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.
Paul Haggis
#68. We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.
Ani DiFranco
#69. The problem with a person who has knee-jerk reactions is that it often makes him look like a jerk, and makes others want to react by giving him the knee.
Torry Martin
#70. She did not know how to react, for when your heart has been poisoned and someone picks a dandelion for you - because it is bright and yellow and you seem like you could use something like that - all you can do is contemplate the funny ways of weeds.
Anne Ursu
#71. I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.
Ric Ocasek
#72. Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately, while wisdom is frequently more proactive and additionally encourages the shaping of the environment.
Ben Carson
#73. And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.
Sarah Palin
#74. My heart swelled, my belly dipped and my head revolted. It was my head that knew how to react but his had happened with Henry too. When the pain of not having what I so very much wanted escalated before I settled into the knowledge that what I had was better than not having anything at all.
Kristen Ashley
#75. Evidently this safety is completely false; no one can control anything, and a change always appears at the moment one least expects it, taking us surprise and with no chance to react or fight.
Paulo Coelho
#76. And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.
Rod Steiger
#77. To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.
Umberto Eco
#78. In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.
Chuck Palahniuk
#79. If nothing else, Malus Darkblade, you can be counted on to react to adversity with as much violence as physically possible- Tzarkan
Dan Abnett
#80. There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.
Victor LaValle
#81. fear clouds judgment and encourages you to REACT - rather than carefully consider alternatives - thus ensuring a less than optimal response to your problem. Even
Edwin Harkness Spina
#82. Words aren't just sounds or shapes. They're meaning. That's what language is: a protocol for transferring meaning. When you learn English, you train your brain to react in a particular way to particular sounds. As it turns out, the protocol can be hacked.
Max Barry
#83. people are so used to fictions that reality is difficult to react to
Sissel Tolaas
#84. I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.
Marisa Tomei
#85. To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved ... that day, you die as a writer.
Dwight V. Swain
#86. I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.
Bill Belichick
#87. I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.
V.C. Andrews
#88. My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#89. I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.
Sue Townsend
#90. You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
Carlos Ghosn
#91. Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.
Thomas Sowell
#92. Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.
Martin Freeman
#93. Vipassana proponents always stress that if you are insulted by someone and get angry, the result is not the abuser's fault. It is your fault because you choose to react.
Ashwin Sanghi
#94. If this is how you're going to react, I'll freak out more often.
Stephenie Meyer
#95. I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
Sachin Tendulkar
#96. You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
Jan Garbarek
#97. Adolescents have a very rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature.
Beatrice Sparks
#98. In my carpet bag are the mushrooms that I gathered in the woods. With two fingers I pick up a piece and look at it. Then I take a bite and wait for my body to react. Now I'm in a better mood. In a short time I'll be dead. Or alive. I'm not always sure that there's any difference.
Peter H. Fogtdal
#99. You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.
Kevin Spacey
#100. The good news is that every morning we have the choice; not to be controlled by circumstances nor our past but by purposely designing our day, hence our lives better. Not to react to life but to respond with love.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
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