Cherie Blair

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

British Lawyer

Ian Ziering

We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me.

American Actor

Melissa Rosenberg

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that.

American Writer

Jos Buttler

In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.

English Athlete

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Indian Actress

Neal Patterson

We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.

American Businessman

Chuck Palahniuk

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

American Novelist

Stephen Lang

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.

Gerhard Herzberg

The CH radical is a very reactive radical which, under most conditions, has a very short lifetime.

German Physicist

Deepak Chopra

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

American Speaker

Reactive can emphasize an emotional response to stimuli, not just physical.

Emotional Reaction

Use 'reactive' to describe behavior influenced by specific situations or changes.

Situation Dependent

'Reactive' can imply over-sensitivity or unpredictability in certain contexts.

Negative Connotation

'Reactive' suggests taking action after problems arise, not before.

Solution Timing

'Reactive' may criticize a lack of planning or foresight in strategic contexts.

Strategy Critique

'Reactive' describes how likely a substance is to undergo a chemical change.

Chemical Behavior

In chemistry, 'reactive' implies handling substances with care due to potential hazards.

Experimental Caution

The term is specialized in scientific contexts; its meaning varies for non-scientists.

Specialized Vocabulary

 and not just all the mechanical stuff of finding and reporting them. So that's how we think about it. I'm curious to dig in more about what you said. I mean, I love that you said you are looking for ways to re-tweak the fundamental design of the system to discourage some of the reactive behavior, and perhaps --

How Twitter needs to...

 But really, power is also about how you react to stress. So do you want the high-power leader that's dominant, high on testosterone, but really stress reactive? Probably not, right? You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back.

Your body language may...

 not the voices of journalists or commentators on social media. And that's why the story was news. We live in an incredibly interconnected world with the proliferation of social media, which is of course a fantastic resource for igniting social change. But it's also made us increasingly reactive,

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 and motivates you to spend more time with them. Neuroimaging studies show that this region is highly reactive during your teenage years, which may explain why adolescents seem to place a higher value on social interactions than children or adults. Teenage friendships can also feel more intimate

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 which is the opposite of psychopathy in terms of compassion and the desire to help other people, emerge from a brain that is also the opposite of psychopathy? A sort of antipsychopathic brain, better able to recognize other people's fear, an amygdala that's more reactive to this expression

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 depression, grief and sadness. Grief is explicitly reactive. If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy, and then, six months later, you are still deeply sad, but you're functioning a little better, it's probably grief,

Depression, the secret...

 leader that's dominant high on testosterone butts really stress reactive probably not right you want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant but not very stress reactive the person who's laid-back so we know

Your body language...

 reactive molecule called ozone which contains three oxygen atoms. Ozone is a trace gas in the atmosphere. There are only about three molecules for every 10 million molecules of air but it does a very important job.

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 for an afterburner chamber from girls that asked for way too many questions to designing a to reactive system everything started from wondering and friendship and never giving up so if a knight

Turning chicken feathers...

 we can respond to the behaviour of the plant in a sort of reactive way and it would be just like you were filming an animal