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I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys. -- Woody Allen
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. -- G. Stanley Hall
And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power. -- Jacky Ickx
All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it. -- Paris Hilton
Caring is a reflex...You live, you help. -- Ram Dass
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. -- Magnus Hirschfeld
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. -- Emma Goldman
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. -- W. Edwards Deming
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. -- Sarah Bernhardt
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. -- Victor Hugo
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes. -- Emerson Fittipaldi
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. -- Noam Chomsky
It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them. -- Ricky Gervais
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong. -- Francis Schaeffer
The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes. -- Jacques-Henri Lartigue
For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body. -- Edgar Cayce
The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation. -- Garry Kasparov
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are. -- Emile M. Cioran
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle. -- James Surowiecki
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. -- Alex Karras
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures -- C. Wright Mills
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom. -- Jean Paul
I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute. -- Jud Tylor
Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment. -- V. E. Schwab
I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them. -- Lucy Lawless
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. -- Carlos Ghosn
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. -- Sania Mirza
My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts. -- Graham Joyce
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not. -- Sebastian Junger
A good jockey has to be physically well balanced. They have to possess a strong upper body and a strong lower body. You've gotta have quick reflexes, and you've got to be incredibly coordinated. But it's you're instincts that have to be perfect. You can't be an exceptional rider without instincts. -- Chantal Sutherland
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration. -- Eve Arnold
We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions. -- Mason Cooley
I just put the reflexes in the proper direction. -- Angelo Dundee
There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes. -- Steven Brust
We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself. -- Chris Mooney
First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends -- Willie Pep
Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes. -- Bill Gates
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious. -- Jimmy Stewart
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious. -- Jimmy Stewart
My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive. -- Robert Breault
I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older. -- Kris Kristofferson
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? -- Robert Breault
A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event. -- Bill Gates
It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again. -- Marge Piercy
Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed. "Well, look at that." I studied my free wrist. "Denied. Good-bye -- Ilona Andrews
When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery. -- Georges Bataille
Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses. -- Max Dupain

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