I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should react." (p.180)

Too often entrepreneurs are reactive to the challenges inherent when building a company... the most successful founders are proactive.

Not every situation Needs a Reaction

When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.

Understand that emotion embodies a psychological reaction to circumstance that has occurred, is occurring, or is slated to occur.

When someone wrongs us, the appropriate reaction is to acknowledge the wrongdoing and offer the offending party forgiveness.

How we choose to react to circumstances that arise holds substantially more weight than the circumstances themselves.

Your behavior is the sum total of your action and reaction to issues and people around you.

Do not lie to yourself about the fact of death, choosing instead to become consumed by the psychological reaction to it-what we call grief.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.

"Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the

You don't need to read a book to activate your thoughts. A thought itself is good enough to create a chain reaction of thoughts capable of building a mountain of knowledge.

The most robust evidence indicates that this wisdom-of-crowds principle holds when forecasts are made independently before being averaged together. In a true betting market (including the stock market), people can and do react to one another's behavior.

Life is not a sport. Life is not math. There is no final end goal and there is no right answer. Just because your truth does not match someone else's truth does not make either of you wrong. Life is not a zero sum game. If I am right, that does not make you wrong. If you are right, that does not make me wrong either. A jar of vinegar can sit in a cupboard beside a box of baking soda peacefully, and we can allow those who disagree with us to exist alongside us without reacting to them. There is nothing to prove. There is enough room in the world for all of us.

I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

You have the ability to choose your reactions.

If we react to disruptions fearfully or habitually, or even non-strategically, then it's almost impossible to achieve holistic wealth.

I rarely do what is expected of me, not to cause reaction but to please myself rather than others.

For Every Action, There Must Be An Equivalent Reaction. If None, Don't Waste Your Time And Energy Doing Nothing. Invest Them Elsewhere Worthy.

Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well.

The reaction of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because 'friends react on one another' and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrong-doing. This is unquestionably true. Moreover, if one is to love God, or to love humanity as a whole, one cannot give one's preference to any individual person. This again is true, and it marks the point at which the humanistic and the religious attitude cease to be reconcilable. To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.