“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.” IfsMindStatesFactsHappensPainCourageWonderfulBrokenBraveMiseryFinancialIllnessThings HappenReactionsInevitableControlledState Of MindWoeBe BraveWonderful ThingsAlteredOptionalPhysical PainBroken Relationship Author:Barbara
“For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.” ReasonHappensFilmReactionsMore TimeReviewsInitials Author:Alain Resnais
“The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.” WayLongHappensPastSoundSilenceEventsFiguresLong TimeReactionsExceedReposeReverberation Book:Sometimes a Great Notion Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.” IfsCountryHappensWould BeLostClassPositionInternationalReactionsCommunismErasRepublicThroatCapitalistOppressedWorking ClassSmashing Author:Joseph Stalin
“While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.” IdeasHappensProcessCreativityBrilliantTinyReactionsChainsSparksFlashExecutingChain Reactions Author:R. Keith Sawyer
“If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMayMatterHappensWalksMistakeWalkingReactionsSupposingSupposing That Author:J. I. Packer