#react

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#how #life #react #you

The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it. ↗

— David Thewlis

#best #doing #done #faces #kid

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#her #his #impossible #internal #needs

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#i #i think #many #people #reactive

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ↗

— George Konrad

#believe #courage #dangerous #maybe #number

Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid. ↗

— Garth Stein

#mistakes #rain #react #speed #unpredictable

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. ↗

— Larry Wall

#architecture #came #coming #computer #computer science

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#counterproductive #i #i think #most #people

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#counterproductive #i #i think #most #people

[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#fear #hysteria #overreaction #panic #paranoia