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• Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Habit, Interest, Humans

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• If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.

  Angelina Love

  Time, Meditation, Feelings

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• Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspiration, World, Helping

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• When you’re living by default, you’re automatically reacting to life in habitual ways, many of which may be limiting you and your life. In contrast, living deliberately means making more conscious and constructive life choices. When you’re living deliberately, you’re living from a position of responsibility; you’re making choices with greater awareness. You’re taken yourself off autopilot, so you’re better prepared to align your actions with the results you want to achieve.

  Lauren Mackler

  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

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• I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

  Stephen Root

  Knowing, Acting, Lines

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

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• Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.

  Barney Chavous

  Sports, Football, Exercise

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• Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too.

  Tom Bergeron

  Thinking, Perspective, Trying

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• The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Differences, Theatre, Acting

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, May, Language

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.238, Cambridge University Press

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• The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.

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• All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

  Mike Nichols

  Real, Psychology, Theatre

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• When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Life, Children, Real

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• In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.

  Saul Bellow

  Emotional, People, Feelings

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.138, Odyssey Editions

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• Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Listening, Acting, Hearing

  "Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part".

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• I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Thinking, People

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Pain, Believe

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• Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure

  Steve Largent

  Leadership, Sports, Mistake

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• Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fighting, Training, Exit

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

  Eileen O'Brien

  Responsibility, Color, White

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• For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

  Richard Marcinko

  Winning, Past, Way

  Richard Marcinko (1995). “Green Team”, Atria Books

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• A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

  Michael Mann

  People, Wide, Screens

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

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• The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Zero, Caring, Land

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• It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Moving On, Attitude

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• All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Reactions

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• 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

  Mistake, Rain, Track

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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