#react

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arab #diminish #distort #else #hands

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#how #life #react #you

The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it. ↗

— David Thewlis

#best #doing #done #faces #kid

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! ↗

— Victoria Abril

#everything #eyes #grab #keep #learn

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#her #his #impossible #internal #needs

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

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

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

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#human-being #life #personality #prediction #reaction

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#comes #dare #fully #her #his