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Quotes About Trigger

I'm learning that I have to practice forgiveness, and sometimes it feels as if I have to do it moment by moment. Whenever the trigger gets pulled or the cloud of shame descends, I'm learning to see it as an invitation to forgive. My negative reaction means I'm aware of my lack of releasing my grudge or pain against them. It also means I can learn to let go of the hurts they caused.
~ Cecil Murphey
Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy. Dismissed.
~ Orson Scott Card
Many times during your life you've heard or seen something that caused you to snap your fingers and say, "Oh, that reminds me.…" And, usually, the thing that reminded you of something had nothing to do with what it reminded you of. Somewhere back in your mind an absurd or random association had been made.
~ Harry Lorayne
Whenever their partner's behavior looks or sounds like the real threats they've experienced in the past, they activate the defenses they used back then. Their defensive arsenal is ready to be deployed at the slightest provocation. An unsuspecting or well-intentioned partner can stumble over a tripwire and never know what they did to set off the attack.
~ Harville Hendrix
Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger
~ Janet Fitch
I have allergic reactions: it triggers my gag reflex when I read unrealistic dialogue from a teenager.
~ Lucas Hedges
Stimulus does not work.
~ Rick Scott
You can't tell me if there are any special subjects to avoid when talking to him, can you?' 'Special subjects?' 'Well, you know how it is with a stranger. You say it's a fine day, and he goes all white and tense, because you've reminded him that it was on a fine day that his wife eloped with the chauffeur.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
el detonante universal del enfado sea la sensación de hallarse amenazado.
~ Daniel Goleman
detonante universal del enfado sea la sensación de hallarse amenazado.
~ Daniel Goleman
Every action triggers a reaction.
~ C.G. Watson, Quad
I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.
~ Brande Roderick
On a piece of paper, write down the formula for our human reaction: S-P-R This stands for Stimulus—Pause—Response.
~ Tom Hopkins
a sound, a smell, or a memory could bring it back to mind.
~ Danielle Steel
It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoot themselves in...the head. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.
~ David Foster Wallace
Think of the old cliché about "the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master." This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.
~ David Foster Wallace
Acaricio el gatillo con el dedo. Me siento serena, gloriosamente serena. Anteponer el miedo a la ambición, a la familia o al amor es una muestra de debilidad, pero es una sensación agradable. Te hace sentir poderoso.
~ Holly Black
The peace sign is just a trigger and a middle finger.
~ Lil Wayne
I wanted to create a toolkit which I would have wanted as an entrepreneur to use these principles of psychology in product design. Some startups totally forget the trigger. In some, the action is too complicated. Others don't have a variable reward, which maintains mystery.
~ Nir Eyal
Chutsky gave me such a warm, tolerant, patronizing smile that I would gladly have turned the pistol on him and pulled the trigger. "It's a pistol, buddy," he said. "What do you think it's for?
~ Jeff Lindsay
But there is always something the victim does unconsciously, some special trigger that brings a Passenger up out of the shadows and into the driver's seat. Every Monster has his own specific flash point that ignites the Need, and it is almost always different.
~ Jeff Lindsay
did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door
~ Jerry Spinelli
many of our mood swings are related to how we interpret what happens. If we look closely at our mood swings, we'll notice that something always sets them off. We carry around a subjective reality that is continually triggering our emotional reactions.
~ Pema Chodron