You have to fail, man, but you cannot allow failure to stop you from doing what you must do. Failing is just as good as succeeding in a lot of ways. It’s how you react to it all. You can react to success the wrong way and be a total failure. Or you can react to losing with your whole heart, learn from it, and be a huge success. In stand-up, I’ve learned to know when I’m burning it up or when I’m being so-so. That’s experience. I learn every single time I’m on a stage.

When someone threatens me, I don’t threaten them back. Bad people don’t respond to threats. They respond to violence. The only time I point a gun at someone is when I’m going to shoot that person.

Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

One always needs readjustment in his life at some or the other time.

I am quite short, but that never comes across when I’m onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader, a meeting of minds across time and space

The writer’s job is to create an experience for the reader that is as close as possible to the experience he had when he wrote the book

If you have people up in the United States Senate filibustering about whether or not you are human, then obviously you are going to have a reaction in the streets.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

TV and film for me are not as exciting as the live stand-up show and getting the immediate reaction of the crowd. TV is a lot of hurry up and wait for your shot and less immediate reaction from people.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift

The fact is I don’t drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car’s reactions, becoming part of it.

The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

You can’t enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I’m playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

I used to take my short stories to girls’ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Setting a goal is like adding a catalyst to your success reaction.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances—if there is any reaction, both are transformed

To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.”

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Life is 10% what happen to you & 90% how you respond.

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible

I don’t do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I’m a southern boy.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly. They’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced

Plodding wins the race

When you’re creating a fragrance, you’re always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It’s a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it’s unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.