The other person's reaction is their problem, but my reaction can become mine.
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The other person's reactions are their problem, but my reaction can become mine.
JIM GENOVESE Your problem is never really your problem, your reaction to your problem is your problem.
BRIAN KINSEY It's become a chain reaction,
GUY GROUX My immediate, knee-jerk reaction was that we can live with this, ... On the other hand, this is bigg...
WAYNE HALE When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reactio...
KUSHAL PAL SINGH their typical knee-jerk reaction.
HENRY HYDE What do you think my reaction is,
RHETT BOMAR Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes-well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian ...
JAMES LAVER Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
LEON TROTSKY REACTION
Every action causes a reaction. It is the law of life.
SIRSHREE I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.
WILLIAM HAGUE My initial reaction was 'wow,
NOMAR GARCIAPARRA Their reaction time is better and they can prevent getting injured again if they are more aware of t...
LAURA SCHULTZ You don't go into the National Gallery of any famous capital city and cry, sob, laugh, fall about on...
PETER GREENAWAY The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can't get a reaction, that means you ca...
A.J. STYLES It's a legislator reaction to a real life problem that we face every day.
FRAN HUMPHRIES My reaction time slowed down severely.
KATIE SCHMIDT Sell the news, that's my initial reaction. No. 2 is the sense of confusion regarding the endpoint of...
JOSEPH PANTGINIS It's not what happens each day, but how we react to it that makes us peaceful or agitated.
JIM GENOVESE My overall reaction is that I'm pleased, because we need the data.
CHARLES HENNEKENS I guess my first reaction was 'Ask not what you can do for your cousin but what you can do for his m...
JOSEPH KENNEDY As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.
SIMONE ELKELES We don't have the vehicle in the marketplace. We don't know what the market reaction is. So first, t...
FRANK EWASYSHYN I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
NATHAN LANE If your written words become literal nails to crucify you with, then you have done your job well. Yo...
STEWART STAFFORD You can't stop disasters from happening, but you can stop your bad reaction to them.
JIM GENOVESE A smile can cause a chain reaction of happiness
EDUARDO MONROY Fear is not action but a reaction to circumstances around one.
JAIME CONTRERAS I understand their reaction is based on their personal loss. Revenge and retaliation are never appro...
KARL NUMINEN The key is the stock market reaction.
CHRIS RUPKEY My initial reaction was, I couldn't be less interested,
HARVEY LEVIN People were forced to react to the market reaction without knowing the reason for the market reactio...
LOU BRIEN The first reaction to truth is hatred
TERTULLIAN My initial reaction is, holy cow, they've spent some real money on entertainment.
DINO CORVINO In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because...
HANNAH ARENDT Any reaction is better than none.
GAVIN ROSSDALE Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES I wish I hadn't reacted the way I did, ... but it was my reaction and it was wrong.
KYLE LOHSE My first reaction is it could have been a lot worse than it was.
DON CARTY People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.
DAN GROAT I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction b...
ED SHEERAN Jim is a good friend of mine, but we want to beat their tail off just like anybody else we play.
BUDDY GOULDSMITH Happiness is a choice…you cannot choose what happens, but you can choose your reaction to it and b...
RVM Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!
JEFFREY GITOMER A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life o...
RITA MAE BROWN It hasn't even started airing, but we're both dreading the reaction,
DANNY BONADUCE I think my reaction has been one of shock and awe,
JIM BELL Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land its...
AESOP He wasn't caught, it was a diabetic reaction,
RICK WHITE Respond, don't react.
JIM GENOVESE American society is sort of a flat fresh water pond, which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth...
HENRY ADAMS His reaction was 'whoa!'
LARRY WILSON Act, don't react.
JIM GENOVESE If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive...
RONALD A. HEIFETZ If I participate, knowingly or otherwise, in my sister's oppression and she calls me on it, to answe...
AUDRE LORDE The ability to choose our own reactions is highly underrated.
JIM GENOVESE The reaction has been excellent.
GAYLE BRADSHAW Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here.
ANDREW SMITH The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times,...
LEONARD SAX The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.
NOAM CHOMSKY While these (price cuts) are a reaction to a very competitive market, these are not directly a react...
BRIAN JAQUET The fears over money laundering and terrorist financing are an over-reaction to an otherwise smaller...
DILIP RATHA The fears over money laundering and terrorist financing are an over- reaction to an otherwise smalle...
DILIP RATHA Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a ...
DONATELLA VERSACE I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
KATHY ACKER I have been shocked at their reaction. Furthermore I do not really understand it.
DAN BROWN They suffered with his death and she - she suffered with their reaction to it.
HAIDJI Jody is very, very disappointed with his reaction
COLIN LEE My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
MATTHEW VAUGHN Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.
THOMAS SZAS Culture is a catalyst which expedites the reaction called success.
FAISAL KHOSA The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.
YUVAL NOAH HARARI You can see the competitive reaction quite honestly as an endorsement of the IBM strategy.
SAM PALMISANO Finding a peace within yourself is not condoning your actions but learning from your reaction.
JASMINA SIDEROVSKI A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one...
RICHARD AYOADE You're seeing a knee-jerk reaction to the tremendous gain in energy prices. It's also a reaction to ...
DONALD SELKIN My initial reaction was that choreographing in the code of points is painting by numbers with a stra...
LORI NICHOL For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Sadly, after seeing glowing praise, some j...
VANNA BONTA It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.
SHANNON L. ALDER What was my reaction? Excitement. I've been waiting five years for this moment.
ILYA BRYZGALOV My problem was with the process and not Jim Francis.
MARK SINATRO Our reaction will be painful.
ABU ABIR Investor reaction likely slightly negative.
MICHAEL BRUYNESTEYN Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality
SOKE BEHZAD AHMADI Immediately they think that they suddenly have had an increase in their wealth. It's a visceral reac...
JANET BODNAR We have no reaction to the story.
BOB COMBS By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY It looks like China's reaction in the short-term is imperceptible.
STEPHEN GREEN It was going on through the game. His reaction is understandable.
RAFAEL MARQUEZ Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth
PEMA CHöDRöN I think my immediate reaction must have been the proverbial jump for joy. They are a tremendous reso...
HOWARD MORPHY I'm never going to leave the stage. I love the instant, immediate reaction. It's my home.
JO KOY But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because ...
CHERYL TIEGS Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, unti...
LEO FITZPATRICK The reaction is not surprising. The expectations were skewed to the upside.
HENRIK GULLBERG By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and m...
EDWARD WALKER The major reaction when EA announced their exclusive deal in December was, 'God, this is a huge loss...
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JIM GENOVESE Don't seek a solution, seek the best solution.
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JIM GENOVESE When you find the best solution it is often very easy, and everyone will say 'Anyone could do that.'
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JIM GENOVESE The path most walked on is the easiest one to use, but probably not the best.
JIM GENOVESE Expertise is made up of more practice and more refinement.
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JIM GENOVESE Trying to control people is like trying to heard cats. It's not a good idea.
JIM GENOVESE Do your part, and God will do the rest.
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JIM GENOVESE The time to start is now.
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