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• The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

  Paul Newman

  Good Night, Healing, Sleep

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• 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

  Free Will, Mankind, Creatures

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• It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, People, Wish

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Men, Growth, Generations

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• What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

  Timothy Leary

  Wish, Patterns, Psychedelic

  Timothy Leary (2004). “Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: A Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation”, p.118, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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

  Dream, Procrastination, Self

  "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

  Robert Breault

  Thank God, Gone, Shots

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• A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

  Garrison Keillor

  Flames, Class, People

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but
  that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice....
  [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries
  in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of
  Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time,
  curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely
  configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks

  Arthur Kroker

  Discovery, Practice, Space

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• Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Law, Psychology, Quality

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.78, Read Books Ltd

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• Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mistake, Mean, Self

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.
  Rage.

  Tara Moss

  Emotion, Rage, Replaced

  Tara Moss (2012). “Assassin”, p.5, HarperCollins Australia

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• If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.

  Ken Rosewall

  Moving, Player, Names

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• If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the kick of a dolphin, the reflexes of a cat. If you could have all these, you would have the body, you would have the tools. But you would not have greatness until you understand that the strongest muscle is the heart. To me, that's the soul of the Olympic Games.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Spring, Heart, Cat

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• The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.

  George Steiner

  Real, Moving, Risk

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.31, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

  Jacques Ellul

  Character, Two, Manipulation

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• 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

  Stupid, Thinking, Age

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• There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not exercise human control. They would rate a generous deed as no more praiseworthy than a wink, a crime as no more voluntary than a sneeze. . . Such a philosophy undercuts all human dignity. . . All of us have the power of choice in action at every moment of our lives.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Philosophy, Exercise, Choices

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• It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.

  Bill Sharman

  Leadership, Sports, Thinking

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• It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.

  Fred Ward

  Meat, Going Out, Asking

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• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Character, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1839). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.2

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• 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

  Running, Children, Survival

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• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  Samuel Alexander

  Simple, Issues, Analysis

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• We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Children, Husband, Sacrifice

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• Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

  Joseph Pilates

  Pilates, Action, Should

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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