Reactions Quotes - Page 35

• The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

  David J. Schwartz

  Impossible, Chain Reactions, Chains

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.73, Penguin

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.

  Richard Price

  Running, Character, Writing

  5 Copy quote

• It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Sitting Still, Length

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). “Nabokov's congeries”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

  Amelia Earhart

  Cutting, Worry, Decision

  13 Copy quote

• I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.

  Richard Price

  Book, Judging, Different

  4 Copy quote

• There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

  Henry Reed

  Philosophy, Medicine, Listening

  7 Copy quote

• Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

  Joe Murray

  Ideas, Creative, Flow

  4 Copy quote

• Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing… The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Father, Opposites

  14 Copy quote

• The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

  Arthur Henderson

  Depression, Years, Political

  4 Copy quote

• Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

  Matthew Kelly

  Each Day, Action, Life Is

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.165, BookBaby

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Father, Devil

  10 Copy quote

• I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

  Jim Morrison

  Mean, Thinking, People

  8 Copy quote

• It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Views, Different, Gone

  7 Copy quote

• The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

  Paul Goodman

  Travel, Space, Land

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

  Andrew Davies

  Numbers, Ridiculous, Classic

  4 Copy quote

• I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

  Jim Morrison

  Music, Thinking, People

  13 Copy quote

• I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after the operation than some people who have bypass surgery because I was completely cured. But when you mentioned "heart transplant," you got a very negative reaction. It triggered people's imaginations, and not in a good way.

  Robert Altman

  Heart, Thinking, Imagination

  5 Copy quote

• Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.

  Paul Goodman

  Real, World, Artistic

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 176), 1956.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

  John Carpenter

  Horror Stories, Danger, Genre

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

  Topher Grace

  Character, Great Things, Audience

  Source: collider.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Australians and New Zealanders don't talk about Gallipoli in terms of invasion. I started talking about it and using that word and at first there were a few people who were getting upset in the same way that in any country, if you work for a newspaper you know exactly the dude you can go and talk to get a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to something to do with the military.

  Russell Crowe

  Country, Military, Talking

  "The Water Diviner - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, it's basically the viewers who determine it. We - well, basically the producers and myself chose the people we felt had the best reaction, you know, through the press, the Internet, the people we thought deserved a second chance. And they've chosen a winner, I believe.

  Simon Cowell

  Believe, Second Chance, People

  "Simon Cowel Dishes on America's Got Talent". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 12, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.

  Elijah Wood

  War, Thinking, Radio News

  Source: www.movieweb.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I feel that with Hostel, any time you make a film like that it's going to illicit a strong reaction and you can't worry about that.

  Eli Roth

  Strong, Smart, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Teenage, Crazy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source