Reacting Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Feelings, Perception, Floating

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.15, Penguin

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• 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

  Sex, Moving, America

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.

  Stanley Sarnoff

  Life, Stress, Relaxation

  "Man Under Stress". Conference No. 7, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, November 15-17, 1963.

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• 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

  Hurt, Revenge, Stupid

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• 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

  Giving, Goal, Acting

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• We did have one work where it looked like the fibreglass was discolouring, but it turned out it was reacting to the foam it was packed against in storage. We repaired it and sent it back with better packing.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Foam, Packing, Storage

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Rocks, Morality, Reactions

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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

  Neil Berkeley

  Laughter, People, Emotion

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising, then hopefully media attention, attraction of new people to your cause, building public support for your cause, then decision-makers reacting to that change in public opinion. That's true for some types of activism, but it is not true for all of them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Hurt, Thinking, Media

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so diverse. The way people are reacting shows me that everyone sees themselves in it. That is groundbreaking. Similarly people come up some older people that it is not their story but are just crying in our arms after a screening. They know what it was like to be bullied or struggled with their own identity trying to figure out who they are. It has really caught people's imaginations.

  Andre Holland

  People, Imagination, Identity

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• 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

  Theatre, Calling, Used

  Source: www.chud.com

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• 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

  Preparation, Roles, Spontaneity

  Source: www.indiawest.com

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• When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

  Slim Moon

  Fall, Artist, Ears

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

  Bette Ford

  Art, Survival, Example

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Watches, Actresses, Scene

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The way the left is reacting to the death of Fidel Castro up against the incontrovertible facts of who he was, you want to talk about a disconnect. In fact, I don't think it is a disconnect. I think the left, the power brokers, the leaders, I think they actually did admire the guy. I think this is what they think Castro's power - I've always said, the people have asked me, how do these actors and people and these leftist politicians, how come they admire people like this? I said, "They envy their power." And I think there may be a lot to that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Envy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Kyle Chandler] taught me how to listen very well and reacting. There's a lot of improv. And to be able to do that on the spot you really have to be in tune with what the other person is saying instead of just waiting for your cue line or waiting for a word for you to deliver your next line.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Waiting, Tunes, Lines

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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

  Candace Gingrich-Jones

  Acting, Stories, Activist

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• Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures, hates, resentments, and so on, and they're reacting instantaneously.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Hate, Desire, Television

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.

  Jon Gordon

  Past, Men, Guy

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• Sometimes when I can't communicate that I'm frustrated, I'll just grab my guitar and I can play out that emotion and be able to cope with whatever is going on. So even being able to, like I said, share this gift with so many other people, it's definitely very therapeutic. It helps me just to focus and to be able to kind of get out those emotions that I'm having without reacting in such a way that's not acceptable in society.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Play, Guitar, People

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• 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

  Important, Tweet, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Shopping, Hunger

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

  Trevor Noah

  United States, Patriot, Reason

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me. One of a man's secret weapons in dealing with women is knowing the day you stop reacting to my bullshit is the day I feel like I've lost you, even if I'm creating a problem just so we can argue about it.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Men, Creating, Knowing

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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