Reflex Quotes

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale

Thought, Enough, Same

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo

History, Future, Past

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt

Theatre, Ideas, Crowd

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Emma Goldman

Politics, Business, Industrial

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. Edwards Deming

Action, Behavior, Theory

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Ernie Harwell

Game, Baseball, Against

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.
Terry Eagleton

Power, Political, Down

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander

Simple, Act, Mental

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
Jimmy Carr

Love, Laugh, Why

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
Bharati Mukherjee

Love, Politics, Another

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.
Emerson Fittipaldi

Amazing, Car, Mind

Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.
Steven Yeun

Work, Best, Help

It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.
Fred Ward

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