Top 120 Reactive Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person.
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.
I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.
What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.
You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.
Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.
People with anxiety tend to be hyper-reactive. We are like jack rabbits, off and running to the races, reacting to some event, even while the event is still happening.
I'm not at an extreme, but I do think that Donald Trump is a self-created creature. But the media has feasted on his spectacle and he wouldn't live without the attention. He's repaid the favor by attacking the press, but that's generated more reactive coverage.
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.
Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.
I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts
I feel especially vulnerable when I know I've let the reactive ego take control of my actions and it may have had hurtful implications with someone I love. I feel vulnerable when I don't listen to my conscience.
The CH radical is a very reactive radical which, under most conditions, has a very short lifetime.
It's absolutely fine to be a bit more reactive and not chase after the ball at times. But you cannot be passive.
We're 50 per cent of the population so it's appropriate we're reflected everywhere as people who take part in society in a really proactive way - that women aren't just reactive, they're out there doing stuff.
You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second reactive.
With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.
Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.
I've realized I've become a bit reactive to each film I do. After 'The Road,' I was desperate to do something that had color and warmth to it and a stronger sense of community.
Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.
Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture.
The way I put together images is a reactive art.
The luxury market and its consumer are very flexible and reactive.
I think that whenever you feel reactive or are being reactive as opposed to proactive, that inherently - consciously or subconsciously - creates a lot of stress.
Ranveer is a great co-actor. He is extremely reactive and extremely responsive. He is a pleasure to work with.
America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
As the craft re-entered earth's atmosphere, it was coming in so fast, it heated up the surrounding atoms and molecules, and they became positively and negatively charged, and highly reactive, and began luminescing all around us.
My day job finds me in a double-bind often, and it's an ideal position for anyone interested in becoming highly reactive.
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.
Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.
I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.
I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.
As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.
Lee Strasberg taught me different ways in which a scene can be approached so that it is perfect. Acting schools also open you up - you react differently to each scene. It makes you a very reactive person.
Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.
I am reactive.
You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.
So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.
I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly a surprise that it's producing a degree of paralysis. Politics becomes very reactive and it's hard to deal with the bigger issues.
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
Too frequently, in Congress or in nationwide politics at large, we are reactive. We look for easy, short-term solutions, and we try to put a Band-Aid on these massive, structural problems.
Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.
Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.
I think it's clear that Trump is usually in a reactive mode, reacting to what he sees and hears on Fox.
The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.
I'm experimenting. That was part of the reason why I named the album 'Stay Dangerous.' It was about being proactive, not reactive.
We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.
