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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. -- W. Edwards Deming
Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year. -- Daniel Johns
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior. -- Stephen Covey
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. -- Stephen Covey
I am reactive. -- Derek Bailey
The way I put together images is a reactive art. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture. -- Nick Woodman
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered. -- Deepak Chopra
So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis. -- Daniel Johns
The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want. -- Marisa Coughlan
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes. -- Courtney Love
I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it. -- Ray Dalio
I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions. -- Sophia Amoruso
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
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today. -- John W. Thompson
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. -- Marvin Olasky
Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done. -- Fred Durst
What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan. -- Greg Berlanti
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. -- John Major
Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country. -- Isaac Yeffet
Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own. -- Preity Zinta
He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game. -- David Gower
Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that. -- Melissa Rosenberg
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to. -- Sean Scully
America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad. -- Chris Christie
Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive. -- Brian Tracy
I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person. -- Harris Wittels
Our animal friendsâ?? non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis. -- Eckhart Tolle
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap. -- Eric Hoffer
Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths. -- Donald Tusk
I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars. -- Jessica Stern
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
I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing. -- John C. Maxwell
Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul. -- Deepak Chopra
Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it. -- Charles Tillman
As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations. -- David Gray
I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie. -- Ludivine Sagnier
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