#react

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting. ↗

— Jewel Kilcher

#just #keep #knowing #most #ourselves

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#amount #came #caribbean #doing #enjoy

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#beauty #chess #create #creativity #depends

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#be nice #been #before #feel #generous

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it. ↗

— Lawrence Tierney

#fast #help #i #make #me

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. ↗

— Alice Walker

#insults #intended #long #long time #made

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #against #american #american children #aspect

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#dead #fear #men #only #reactions

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part. ↗

— George Carey

#any #church #friends #got #homophobic

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#clouds #cloudy #i #light #london