When You React Quotes

#1. When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

Bob Proctor

#2. Life is presenting every person and circumstance to you so you can choose what you love and what you don't love. When you react to anything, you are reacting with your feelings, and as you do so, you are choosing it.

Rhonda Byrne

#3. Negatives only have power over you when you react to them

John Kehoe

#4. When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.

Saulo Ribeiro

#5. When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.

Zig Ziglar

#6. You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. The rule is, "When in doubt, load it out." Of course the more you carry, the greater a toll it takes on your body, the slower you move, the harder it is to react quickly to a threat.

Mark Owen

#8. I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.

Rob Riggle

#9. 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

#10. When you are in a combat situation, you mustn't let your mind be polluted by emotions like fear and anger. Simply accept the situation and react, even if you are facing impossible odds. Keep your head clear and you will be one step ahead of your attackers.

Aaron B. Powell

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The next millisecond demonstrated how much faster I can think than react. First I thought Blitzen had spotted an actual duck. Blitzen likes ducks. Then I realized he was telling me to get down, which is hard to do when you're the last in a line of three people on horseback.

Rick Riordan

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.

Dawson Trotman

#18. I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

Alicia Vikander

#19. A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

Louise Penny

#20. Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

Cesare Pavese

#21. 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

#22. I think what draws me to young people is there is always this kind of openness that reacts very strongly to things. Sometimes when you get older, you react much less. That's also a reason why a lot of young people get hurt because if you're open, you're more subject to being hurt by things.

Lukas Moodysson

#23. Treat people the way you want to be treated. When they don't treat you back that way, react. React to everything.

Sonny Barger

#24. The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Byron Katie

#25. When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

Leighton Meester

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously, when you're in a scene with somebody, you're supposed to listen and react - and that's a bit of a transition.

Jon Stewart

#29. 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

#30. You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.

Carlos Ghosn

#31. You also know you're surrendered when you don't react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don't edge others out, you don't demand your rights, and you aren't self-serving when you're surrendered.

Rick Warren

#32. The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up.

Thomm Quackenbush

#33. People disappoint you so often. I hardly knew how to react when they surpassed all your hopes.

Paul Doiron

#34. When you observe rather than react, you reclaim your power.

Denise Linn

#35. It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.

Jeff Jordan

#36. You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic.

Rod Milburn

#37. Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Charles Tillman

#38. That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

Ed O'Neill

#39. The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.

Halsey

#40. When I started writing every day, I realized a painful truth: I can't react and create at the same time. Neither can you.

Jeff Goins

#41. Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you're reacting at speed, you're reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.

Garth Stein

#42. The celebration ... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.

Peter Bondra

#43. When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

Lisa Kleypas

#44. When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love.

Debasish Mridha

#45. When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.

Salman Rushdie

#46. I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

Anna Sui

#47. The world always makes sure that you cannot fool yourself for long about who you really think you are by showing you what truly matters to you. How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#48. If you're not angry, then you're just stupid, you don't care. How else can you react when something's so unfair?

Ani DiFranco

#49. When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

Karl Urban

#50. You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.

Stuart Wilde

#51. Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.

Jodi Picoult

#52. By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.

Eckhart Tolle

#53. But when I touch you, your aura ... it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?" He used that hand to pull me closer. "Why do you react that way if I don't mean anything to you?" There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.

Richelle Mead

#54. When you are angry - stop, breath, relax, step back, think, and forgive before you react.

Debasish Mridha

#55. When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

Frank Lampard

#56. For your information, I am NOT overreacting. I'm REACTING. That's different. It's important to react when you're pissed off.

Cherie Currie

#57. When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

Eckhart Tolle

#58. The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

Cam Newton

#59. I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

Arjun Rampal

#60. Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#61. What you give meaning to is what causes your emotion. Before you react know why you are giving something so much energy or fear. When you begin to understand why you give things meaning you can begin to change how you react and why you do what you do.

Shannon L. Alder

#62. Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

Bear Grylls

#63. When they bring the drama, get silent, don't react ... and watch what happens (not to you, but those who habitually thrive on your 'willing' participation).

T.F. Hodge

#64. I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

Nicolas Cage

#65. When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

James Van Der Beek

#66. Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

Laura Mvula

#67. When you're good to yourself, you're actually being good to everyone around you because when you feel good, you'll only react well to other people. At the same time, it's very easy for you to do things for other people when you know that other people are just an extension of yourself.

Anita Moorjani

#68. I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.

Elliott Erwitt

#69. Decide to be HAPPY when you start your day.React with JOY whatever comes your way.You may be hurt by what people say ,but don't let anyone spoil your day.-RVM

R.v.m.

#70. I've worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy, because you react. A little kid crying, there's not much else to do.

Liam Hemsworth

#71. I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.

Wiz Khalifa

#72. When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
many things may come to the surface.
Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
or rather, of one's mind.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#73. When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

Abbie Cornish

#74. Don't react while you are upset because at that time your reaction will be based on negative emotions; but intuitive and positive thoughts flow when you are calm.

Hina Hashmi

#75. When you find the right person, yeah - this is what it feels like." He takes a deep breath, trying to steady himself before taking my hand and placing it over his heart. It's beating fast and hard. "Do you feel that? We haven't done anything yet and that's how I react to you.

H.M. Ward