Knee Jerk Reactions Quotes:

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

- Douglas Hurd

topic: Knee Jerk Reactions, Knees, Sound

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

- Edward Abbey

source: "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

topic: Pads, Knee Jerk Reactions, Knees

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

- Fred Durst

topic: Taken, Looks, Knees, Knee Jerk Reactions

Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.

- Ray Dalio

topic: Life, Pain, Fighting, Knee Jerk Reactions, Thinking Deeply

If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.

- Rachel Maddow

source: "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

topic: Stupid, Media, Issues, Mainstream Media, Knee Jerk Reactions

I was at CNBC for 20 years. I felt really great about covering the stock market, being on the floor, watching the daily knee-jerk reactions to the stock market..but the last three years, being at Fox, I've grown. I've learned more.

- Maria Bartiromo

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Years, Covering, Three, Knee Jerk Reactions

I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.

- Jamie Foxx

source: "Jamie Unchained". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

topic: Girl, Teacher, School, Stepfathers, Knee Jerk Reactions

When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, "This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me."

- Jenny Slate

source: Source: collider.com

topic: People, Laughing, Trying, Knee Jerk Reactions

Australians and New Zealanders don't talk about Gallipoli in terms of invasion. I started talking about it and using that word and at first there were a few people who were getting upset in the same way that in any country, if you work for a newspaper you know exactly the dude you can go and talk to get a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to something to do with the military.

- Russell Crowe

source: "The Water Diviner - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Country, Military, Talking, Knee Jerk Reactions, Gallipoli

Our efforts for inclusive growth are holistic and not piecemeal; well planned and not knee jerk reactions; not for small changes but for quantum leap; making people the partners in growth not just beneficiaries; addressing the local needs by using global ideas and technology. And this is why our efforts in e-governance have been applauded the world over.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Technology, Small Changes, Ideas, Knee Jerk Reactions, Quantum Leap

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

- John Hawkes

topic: Actors, Knees, Tough, Knee Jerk Reactions

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

- Junot Diaz

topic: Artist, Community, Knees, Knee Jerk Reactions