Reactive Response Quotes

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Wherever I've played, I only affect the breakdowns that are in front of me.

My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?

I do think so much of what I do is reactive to the way the world sees itself, or the way the world is being portrayed. I wanted to offer an alternative to that. Whether it is accepted or not is beside the point, but it's an alternative.

It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

Defense is natural. Defense is a reaction. Offense - you've gotta do the moves; you've gotta get it down pat.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Not to sound corny, but if life is a sport, if you're moving to dive on a fumble or pick up a basketball in transition or pivoting to grab your toddler so he doesn't fall into a pool... those are real life movements.

I tend not to read the size of the production into a script when I'm reading it. It's just something you respond to or not and I do think it's very dangerous to say it's time now to do this or it's time now to do that.

In a theatrical experience, creating a moment is somewhat easy; you can have a callback to a previous film, and if 10 people laugh, the others in the hall usually join in.