Reflex Quotes

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

The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

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

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

There's no emotion. I just see the gap and, instinctively, go for it.

I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little.

Honey, I just forgot to duck

I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.

Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.

All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

My knees are ticklish.

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

I have great instincts, like the instincts of a squirrel. You know, like when you're driving and a squirrel stops in the middle of the road.

Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex.

Friends sometimes ask me, 'When you get the ball what are you thinking?' But you do not have time to think. You have to do it. It's not instinct; that's not the right word, but it's how you feel in this moment. You sense it. It's trained, but it's trained inside you. It makes you faster in the moment.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you're not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point - just see it and hit it.