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Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer. -- Russell Simmons
Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting. -- Jewel
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. -- Bill Johnson
To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion. -- Maya Lin
Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past. -- Kenny Loggins
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time. -- Nathan Fillion
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that. -- Neil LaBute
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting. -- Martin Van Creveld
The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission. -- Enrico Fermi
Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain. -- Tara Brach
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. -- Thomas Merton
They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it. -- Alice Cooper
Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. -- Robert H. Schuller
If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently. -- Bryant McGill
We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses. -- Richard Rohr
Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active. -- Michael Shurtleff
We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. -- Dalai Lama
You can't change a negative situation with bad feelings. If you keep reacting negatively, your bad feelings will magnify and multiply the negativity. -- Rhonda Byrne
When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you. -- Chris Hardwick
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance. -- Stephen Covey
This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation. -- Deepak Chopra
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself. -- Marjane Satrapi
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have. -- Steve Ballmer
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years. -- Tina Fey
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life. -- Melody Beattie
Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality, however, being patient is far from being passive. There is nothing strong or courageous in reacting to hardship or insults with anger - all we are doing is being defeated by our delusions. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Acting to me is always reacting. -- Spencer Tracy
A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life. -- Alexander Wang
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. -- Kirk Hammett
I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated. -- Viggo Mortensen
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. -- Rick Warren
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared. -- Jena Malone
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. -- Peter L. Berger
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. -- Michael Jordan
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites. -- Malcolm X
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him. -- Maureen Dowd
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation. -- Antonio Damasio
All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care. -- Arundhati Roy
You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair. -- Navid Negahban
Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting. -- Bill Simmons
The most important thing about being in wrestling is that you have to connect with the crowd, connect with the fans, and you either want them to love you, or to hate you. Either way, so long as they're reacting to what you're doing. -- Chris Jericho
Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place. -- Anton Yelchin
In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards. -- Pete Hegseth
All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it. -- Mike Nichols
God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness. -- J. I. Packer
The process of living is the process of reacting to stress. -- Stanley Sarnoff
Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it? -- Zig Ziglar
Got niggas reacting without a sinus cause what I'm working with is timeless. -- Drake
Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story -- Candace Gingrich-Jones
All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting. -- Billy Bush
Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting. -- Michael Caine
Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens. -- Ma Jaya
I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening. -- Amy Poehler
Real-time marketing is already too late. Brands should focus on sparking conversation, not constantly reacting. -- David Berkowitz
. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them. -- Donald M. MacKinnon
Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening. -- Reid Scott
To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it. -- Carlos Ghosn
Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions. -- Ben Casnocha
By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience. -- Kyriacos C. Markides
A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience. -- Michael Mann
Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention. -- Craig Groeschel
It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting. -- Trevor Noah
If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently. -- Bryant McGill
The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice. -- David Hawkins
When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it. -- Slim Moon
One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap. -- Rirkrit Tiravanija
A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them. -- Shailene Woodley
If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it. -- Nick Offerman
I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. -- Gavin Bryars
For your information, I am NOT overreacting. I'm REACTING. That's different. It's important to react when you're pissed off. -- Cherie Currie
There are so many emotions that are just better when you react to people reacting to it. Like laughter. -- Neil Berkeley
All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market -- Nick Murray
Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition. -- Harvey Mackay
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. -- Eric Alterman
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. -- Condoleezza Rice
There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting. -- Jennifer Lawrence
Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting. -- Jim Jarmusch
For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared. -- Jena Malone
The Republican Party`s reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump`s dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance. -- Chris Matthews
When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you've planned, that is the reward. It's better than the Emmys. -- George Stevens, Jr.
I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him. -- Lily Collins
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism -- Peter L. Berger
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about. -- Benjamin Carson
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. -- Christina Baldwin
Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction of others. -- Michael Lewis
Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre. -- Emma Watson
When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself. -- Neil T Anderson
If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed. -- Kenneth Wapnick
When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit. -- Ed Helms
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors. -- Nicolas Roeg
You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship. -- Rajneesh
I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless. -- Peter Hollingworth
There are two parts to reacting aren't there? How you feel and what you do. And its the thing you do that is the important one. -- Ann Leckie
You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently." -- Sandra Bullock
I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting. -- Malin Akerman
See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner. -- Maxwell Maltz
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I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization. -- Scott Aukerman
If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore. -- Michelle Sagara
..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch -- David Sedaris
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on. -- Mariel Hemingway
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details. -- Jim Evans
By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone. -- Sharon Gannon
I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban. -- Jonathan Gottschall
Preparation for any role is a must, so that when the shot is happening, it's about reacting and living that moment. One must be so prepared that spontaneity comes! -- Arjun Kapoor
When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used. -- Connie Sellecca
I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives. -- Ben Kingsley
The point to me is not what Donald Trump is saying because we keep reacting to just things he says in his tweets. What he is doing is important. -- John McCain
To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens. -- Kamala Harris
It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me. -- Elaine Stritch
For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you. -- Richard Marcinko
Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked." -- bell hooks
Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too. -- Tom Bergeron
I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women. -- Susan Isaacs
In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it. -- Morris Chestnut
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If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation. -- Angelina Love

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