#react

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ↗

— George Konrad

#believe #courage #dangerous #maybe #number

When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger. ↗

— Tony Attwood

#anger-management #asd #aspergers #reactions #anger

If you are upset with another’s words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#awareness #reactions #sounding-board #anger

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

#mistakes #rain #react #speed #unpredictable

You have the ability to choose your reactions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational #perspective #reactions #truth

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#action #analysis #blame #cause #counter-blame

You want to make the world a better place? Start a chain reaction, SMILE TO SOMEONE TODAY! ↗

— Martin Suarez

#action-reaction #change #smile #change

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year. ↗

— H.W. Brands

#reaction #young-adult #education

For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#no-excuses #reaction #equality

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#reaction #equality