#react

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#emotional #more #much #murky #observation

The first reaction to truth is hatred. ↗

— Tertullian

#hatred #reaction #truth #truth is

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#audience #creates #dance #different #love

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#chain-reactions #control #fear #political-bias #religious-prejudice

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#intellectualism #reactions #seeing #understanding #judgment

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#reaction #change

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#before #came #into #minimalism #moved

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#face #future #his #man #reactionary

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#kinder #life #narcissist #nobody #own

Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version? A: No official release of myself will ever follow! Q: Then, you are not! A: I ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#chameleon #chameleonism #change #evolving #flexibility