Reacting Quotes

• There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

  

  Merle Shain
  • inspirational
  • Approach
  • Fighter

• I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Chemistry

• Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Freedom
  • Question
  • Problem

• Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.

  

  Mark Davis
  • Imagine
  • Female
  • Senator

• I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.

  

  Carl Andreas Koefoed
  • Work
  • Children
  • Simple

• A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Actor
  • Seeing
  • Exists

• Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Faith
  • Positively
  • Reacting

• The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.

  

  Ali Velshi
  • Audience
  • News
  • Reacting

• As financial market players know, advantage comes from reacting to news first. The same thing is true for all companies. When you start the conversation, you are recognised as someone who is plugged into the marketplace of ideas. If you talk about an idea early, you naturally get more exposure because the threads of conversation stem from what you have said. If you're in late you get lost in the cacophony.

  

  David Meerman Scott
  • Financial
  • Conversation
  • Companies

• Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the racist event.

  

  Eileen O'Brien
  • Responsibility
  • Balance
  • Racism

• 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
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Reacting

• There are so many emotions that are just better when you react to people reacting to it. Like laughter.

  

  Neil Berkeley
  • People
  • Emotion
  • Laughter

• Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

  

  Candace Gingrich
  • Acting
  • Stories
  • Activist

• Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Listening
  • Actors
  • Crafts

• 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
  • Day
  • Feels
  • Reacting

• Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

  

  Reid Scott
  • Attention
  • Listening
  • Acting

• We have each had the experience of others reacting to us; often there seems to be no logic to it. But in fact, people do pick up on our subtle energy, and even if they can't see it or put it into words, they feel it and, subliminally, they know. They vote yes, no or maybe according to the qualities and strength of the energy we project.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Energy
  • Feels
  • Logic

• A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

  

  Michael Mann
  • People
  • Screens
  • Reacting