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• If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.

  Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

  Writing, Character, Emotional

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• You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Heart, People

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.611, Simon and Schuster

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• I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.

  Ade Akinbiyi

  Soccer, Sunday, Games

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• I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.

  Anne Geddes

  Photography, Heart, Emotional

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• I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction to what I see. I don't leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself 'Today I'm going to be funny and tomorrow I'm going to be sad.'

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Differences

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• "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Dream, Moving

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• ...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.

  Gilberto Simoni

  Climbing, Stressed, Unjust

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• The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.

  Noam Chomsky

  Power, Acquiescence, News

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.108, City Lights Books

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• The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.

  Clemens Winkler

  Science, Actors, Elements

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• Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day-to-day concerns.

  Robert Grudin

  Future, People, Vision

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, People, Action

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.39, Image

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• Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Believe, Achievement

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.102, Tuttle Publishing

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• He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Inspirational, God, Usa

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• You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Karma, Feelings

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• The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Running, Fighting, Battle

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• The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind
  any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to
  safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently
  strong executive power, can protect us.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Discovery, Organization

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.65, Broadway Books

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• Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to
  destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.

  Lynne McTaggart

  People, Deep Thought, Pulse

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• With a nonviolent movement we are still inviting a strong reaction from the government or ruling authorities. We are inviting a powerful reaction against ourselves. But it undermines the moral legitimacy of our current government. That is the path we need to pursue. Rather than reinforcing their legitimacy we need to undermine their legitimacy.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Strong, Powerful, Government

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• We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us.
  It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than the extension of the present.

  Guillaume Faye

  Restoration, Matter, Pox

  Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos

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• The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

  Klaus Kinski

  Lakes, Water, Over You

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• I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

  Nathan Lane

  Strong, Inspire, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

  Jane Krakowski

  Theater, Live Theater

  "Jane Krakowski Takes Manhattan". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. June 24, 2003.

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• A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Confused, Emotional, Thinking

  "Madonna Interview: Sunday Times Culture". The Times Interview, September 20, 2009.

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• Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

  Matthew Lillard

  Stars, Space, Rocks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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