I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.
Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed. “Well, look at that. ” I studied my free wrist. “Denied. Good-bye
We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.
There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.
The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. Rage.
Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins and produce an impulse to hold that whole pattern forther. In other words, it produces a defensive reflex. Not merely is it stuck because it's chemically so well built up, but also there is a defensive reflex which defends against evidence which might weaken it. Thus it all happens, one reflex after another after another. It's just a vast system of reflexes. And they form a 'structure' as they get more rigid.
Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben’s reflexes had saved him. “Please stop doing that!” Ben barked. “Please keep doing that!” Hi warbled.
Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
I'm not a reflex goalie. I try to make as many stops as possible with with my stomach.
