Quotes About Responses

History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences.

through preparation, early action, and intelligent responses, we can quickly flatten its trajectory.

strong public health systems and those systems need to communicate, learn from, and cooperate with one another. You cannot defeat a global disease with local responses.

In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.

The psychotic patient has beliefs that require little information to confirm them and are indeed very difficult to refute logically. They are appropriate only in the sense that they once did apply to the parents' behavior. These misconceptions cause overdramatic and totally inappropriate responses to present-day circumstances and interfere with an individual's ability to adapt. In

Suppression of our natural responses to disaster is part of the disease of our time. The refusal to acknowledge these responses causes a dangerous splitting. It divorces our mental calculations from our intuitive, emotional, and biological embeddedness in the matrix of life. That split allows us passively to acquiesce in the preparations for our own demise.

There was no such thing as human nature, if by that one believed that certain reactions and responses were typical of all men.

AS A CHILD I had to learn to suppress my entirely natural responses to the injuries inflicted on me, responses like rage, anger, pain, and fear.

Feelings, as deputies of homeostasis, are the catalysts for the responses that began human cultures.

Where Do Emotive Responses Come From? The answer to this question is clear. Emotive responses originate in specific brain systems—sometimes in a specific region—responsible for commanding the varied components of the response: the chemical molecules that must be secreted, the visceral changes that must be accomplished, the movements of face, limbs, or whole body that are part of a particular emotion, be it fear, anger, or joy.

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

Behavioral engineering in all of its manifestations always degenerates into merciless manipulation. It reduces all (manipulators and manipulated alike) to a deadly mass effect. The central assumption, that manipulation of individual personalities can achieve uniform behavioral responses, has been exposed as a lie by many species but never with more telling effect than by the Gowachin on Dosadi. — The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.

You can't meet Labour's tests by failing to provide answers.

The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate concerns, different gods, and who respond to the Living God in different ways.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

You can put your principles into a match-box but what fills the whole room is your instinctive responses.

for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses." Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(

If a system is to deal successfully with the diversity of challenges its environment produces, then it needs to have a repertoire of responses (at least) as nuanced as the problems thrown up by the environment. So a viable system is one that can handle the variability of its environment. Or, as Ashby put it, only variety can absorb variety.

Like most other mammals, human beings display a behavioral scale, a spectrum of responses that appear or disappear according to particular circumstances.

tal vez cada relación con los hombres se limita a reproducir las mismas contradicciones, y en ciertos ambientes incluso las mismas respuestas complacientes.