#reaction

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation. ↗

— Judith Orloff

#emotions #inspiration #judith-orloff #reaction #freedom

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

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#always #characters #doing #gotten #i

[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#fear #hysteria #overreaction #panic #paranoia

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

I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#along #different #get #gone #i

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. ↗

— Henry Reed

#chemical #chemical reactions #hearing #listening #only

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#reactionary #walking

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#always #any #dead #issue #progressive