#react

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind. ↗

— Edward Walker

#action #become #character #deadly #fear

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#belong #brutal #centuries #crossed #experienced

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#horror #last #natural #reaction #years

As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment. ↗

— Robert Barany

#also #course #experiment #had #i

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange. ↗

— Robert Kegan

#lifestyles #reactions #society #tendencies #traditions

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#better #chemical #continued #control #detailed

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes. ↗

— Courtney Love

#come #easily #me #my number one #number

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people. ↗

— Alexander Mackenzie

#any #appreciate #canada #considerable #considerable number

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. ↗

— Kate Millett

#being there #diagnosis #does #god #hopeless

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#austen #authors #because #best #books