Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version? A: No official release of myself will ever follow!Q: Then, you are not!A: I

Supposing that what is at any rate believed to be the ‘truth’ really is true, and the meaning of all culture is the reduction of the beast of prey ‘man’ to a tame and civilized...

I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn’t grateful. I wasn’t grateful at all. Don’t get me wrong. I acted like I was. But...

The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.

For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction.

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is...

I just reminded myself that she didn’t say it mean. She wasn’t making fun of me. She wasn’t comparing. Or criticizing.

When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity...

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power.

I don’t think I’m an artist or that I’m doing anything superintellectual. What’s important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it’s beautiful.

The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven’t stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military...

Our reactions to events is directly promotional to their importance in our life.

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

It’s hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It’s hard to know where to look.

In ‘Diary,’ the motto really is: ‘Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?’ It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

A leaders gentle reaction and sound instruction are their greatest weapons.

You want leaders driven by mission – not by adrenaline. No one wants to work with people who need to be heroes more than they need to be catalysts.

Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can’t change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.

You’re only responsible for being honest, not for someone else’s reaction to your honesty.

The author indicts “our culture’s rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction” and counters with the value of “the time and attention required to find the best words and images and then hold them together...

Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl – a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards.

When something comes up that attacks people’s beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

The Natural Law of Cause and Effect. (KARMA) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Our world will be a much better place to live, if such natural law of cause and...

… for when a man’s spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

Wishes and wants do not transform a person; actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you take progressively and consistently.

… And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love.

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

What does one do with experience? Do we react negatively, or do we (pro)create from the space of positivity?

Between an action and reaction, between a gesture and its consequences, everybody agrees that there is an exact relationship, but not necessarily a proportionate one.

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness;...

Things can go three ways—left, right, or straight. If you stand on one side, either the left or the right, you will have the quickest reaction 1/3rd of the time, the second quickest reaction 1/3rd...

To react is one’s choice.

There’s no right or wrong way to hurt. Everybody does it their own way. It’s how we respond to pain that tells the kind of person we are.

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world… and I’ve had offers to perform from around the world and I’m tempted to do it. I’ve got itchy lips.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

Think before you act. Reason before you react.

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

Action triggers reaction. An object somehow responds when we observe it.We just assume that we do objective. In fact, unconsciously we only want to see some parts of the object which do not evoke the...

I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the...

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction...

Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else’s hands.

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone’s behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it’s not personal,...

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.