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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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• It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

  Seth Godin

  Hurt, Scarcity, Quitting

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.32, Penguin

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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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• 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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• You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?” Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up her knee quickly and decisively, and he dropped to the floor like a grain sack. “You can’t blame a girl for her quick reflexes now, can you, pal?

  Libba Bray

  Girl, New York, Kissing

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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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• 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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• With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions which in their sequence one upon another constitute in their continuity what may be termed the 'behaviour'.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Simple, Behaviour, May

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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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• Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hysteria, Needs, Cloning

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• Have you been drinking this morning? How did you miss me? I swear I’ve fought old women with better reflexes. (Takeshi) The fact you fight old women tells me just how rusty you’ve become. What? Your ego needed the boost and they were the only ones you could find you could beat? (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Morning, Drinking, Fighting

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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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• There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

  Jim Butcher

  Hands, Touching You, Knowing

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1584, Penguin

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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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• 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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• "Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm ready." "Well, I'm not. I hear it's dull, being dead." She said it lightly, amused, and he peered up at her. Had she just made a joke? She smiled. Smiled. He did, too. Amazed, he felt it happening, as if her smile had triggered a reflex in him. "Dull sounds nice," he said, letting his eyes flutter closed. "Maybe I can catch up on my reading."

  Laini Taylor

  Nice, Reading, Eye

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• Joy is the reflex of terror.

  Victor Hugo

  Joy, Terror

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.488, Modern Library

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• It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

  Ilona Andrews

  Knives, Bells, Undead

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• Jared had his back to the wall, which Kami thought was a reflex when he was uncomfortable. She wanted to shield him. “He was doing some—Zen jogging,” she claimed. Jared flicked her an incredulous glance. “Yes,” he said slowly. “Zen jogging. I wasn’t wearing that many clothes because—that’s part of the process. You’re meant to commune with the elements. Normally, I wouldn’t have worn my jeans, but I put them on because I know the English are a modest people.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Wall, Jeans, Clothes

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

  Pete Newell

  Believe, Boards, Pieces

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