(351 quotes found)
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it”
Charles R. Swindoll
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
Wayne Dyer
“Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.”
William S. Burroughs
“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.”
Chris Evert
“There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.”
Tom Hanks
“I don't know how I'm going to react, which is something I'm scared of but also intrigued by.”
Joe Pasquale
“I like to get into a situation that is real, where I can say, 'Here's a chance to react as a human being, not some wound-up doll or robot that goes round and round a track, or a cardboard cut-out like the character I played in 'The Towering Inferno'.”
William M. Holden
“If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.”
Ed Harris
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus
“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
Thaddeus Golas