Quotes About Response

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

The best antidote to stress is resilience... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them.

Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.

People handle stress in different ways.

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.