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"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." »Rita Mae Brown
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"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." »George Carlin
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"Failure is defined by our reaction to it." »Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
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"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." »Lin Yutang
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"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." »Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
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"One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." »Rita Mae Brown
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"Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life." »William James
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"Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed." »Carl Gustav Jung
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." »Jung
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." »Carl Jung
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"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." »Erich Fromm
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)" »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"We create our lives a thought at a time. And sometimes, it comes down to changing a thought such as 'Why did this happen to me' into 'There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.'" »Dee Wallace Stone
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"It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation." »Robert Conklin
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"History teaches us that people from different religions and ethnic groups can be united around one shared economic goal; equality and prosperity for all. We saw that in the rise of the communist USSR. When the economic policies of the USSR failed, ethnic and national divisions took the forefront and the USSR was dissolved. That can happen to the US if we are hit hard enough by hyperinflation and currency collapse. How the divisions evolve and what forms they will take depend on the type and speed of the government's reaction. It is too early to foresee such events. However, it is important to note that no country is above the socioeconomic laws, US included." »Med Jones
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"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men." »Clive Staples Lewis
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