Reactive Thinking Quotes

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

All I ever try and do in any game is play to how I see the situation.

A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"

The length of time during which you must play your fish depends on his choice, not on yours.

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.

Act quickly, think slowly.

We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every problem.

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

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

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

As a writer, you always try to imagine, 'What if I were in a situation like this? How would I react?'

It's fine for a bowler to have a plan but I feel as a batter you need to have another plan to counteract what they're doing.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

I like to read the situation and play accordingly.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.

We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.

Instincts are learned on the football field through experience. It's vital in sports because things happen so rapidly that you have to rely on your instincts at times to make quick decisions.

From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

Football has a thing: You have to decide on an action in a moment, and your head has to be fresh for taking that decision in the moment.