Reflexes Quotes

• 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

  Strength, Success, Courage

  "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

  Magnus Hirschfeld

  Love, Reflection, Conflict

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• What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Past, Echoes

  Victor Hugo (2008). “The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Art, Simple, Skills

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• Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Action, Enough, Habit

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality, Action, Management

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• There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

  Steven Brust

  No Excuses, Manners, Excuse

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• I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.

  Angelo Dundee

  Boxing, Dundee

  " Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee dies", www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

  Declan Donnellan

  Survival, Acting, Development

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• 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

  Men, Habit, Stimulus

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.180, Read Books Ltd

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• You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.

  Joe Frazier

  Spiritual, Dark, Light

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• Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mind, Antithesis

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• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

  Emma Goldman

  World, Politics, Politician

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

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• 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

  Focus, Intuition, Asking

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• Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.

  Sam Storms

  Giving

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• I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• 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

  Worst Enemy, Play, Clouds

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

  Alfred de Musset

  Joy, Vivid, Retrospect

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• It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Doctors, Humanity

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• 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

  Pride, Ego, Flesh

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• 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

  Clouds, Way, Chance

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• The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ambition, Men, Animal

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail — and it can be subordinated, or he can be tyrannized by it.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Moving, Eye, Perspective

  "The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers".

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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

  Love, Letting Go, Hurt

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.55, Knopf

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