Quotes About Response

Hit it back over the net, as the teachers use to say when getting us ready for school debates. The harder the shot coming toward you, the more power in your return.

You can't change the fact the world's full of arseholes. You can only change how you deal with them.

No plan survives contact with the enemy." Helmuth von Moltke

Jaud planted his fists on his hips. "You made it, then." "Some turds float," said Rulf. Ankran

We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters

Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.

One can only say this: Calvinism is the order "left standing" in Twains' literary life and he respond on the level of form and content to the ideas found in that stern tradition. p.191

Change as a Choice, Instead of a Reaction

For instance, when a lion was chasing your ancestors, the stress response was doing what it was designed to do—protect them from their outer environment. That's adaptive. But if, for days on end, you fret about your promotion, overfocus on your presentation to upper management, or worry about your mother being in the hospital, these situations create the same chemicals as though you were being chased by a lion.

Thought Alone Can Trigger the Human Stress Response— and Keep It Going

Because of the size of our enormous forebrain, the privilege of being a human being is that we can make thought more real than anything else—and that's how the placebo works. To see how the process unfolds, it's vital to examine and review three key elements: conditioning, expectation, and meaning. As you'll see, these three concepts all seem to work together in orchestrating the placebo response. I

El experimento del HeartMath demuestra que el campo cuántico no responde simplemente a nuestros deseos: nuestras peticiones emocionales. Ni tampoco a nuestras intenciones: nuestros pensamientos. Sólo nos responde cuando estos dos factores son afines o coherentes, es decir, cuando emiten la misma señal.

If you keep the stress response turned on for extended periods of time, the long-term effects keep slowing down the frequency of the body such that it becomes more and more particle and less and less wave. That means that there's less consciousness, energy, and information available for atoms, molecules, and chemicals to share. As a result, you become matter trying futilely to change matter—you are a body trying without success to change a body.

El campo cuántico no responde a lo que queremos, sino a quién estamos siendo.

That event—where something outside of you changes something inside of you—is called an associative memory. If we keep repeating the process over and over again, by association the outer stimulus can become so strong or reinforced that we can replace the aspirin for a sugar pill that looks like an aspirin, and it will produce an automatic inner response (lessening the pain of the headache). That's one way the placebo works.

The new thought that the leaf wouldn't hurt them overrode their memory and belief that they were allergic to it, rendering real poison ivy harmless. And the reverse was true in the second part of the experiment: A harmless leaf was made toxic by thought alone. In both cases, it seemed as if the children's bodies instantaneously responded to a new mind.

And anytime a stimulus from your external environment is presented to you—like an opportunity to teach—you've conditioned your body, just as Pavlov conditioned his dogs, to subconsciously and automatically respond to the mind of the past experience. Since

It's the same with placebos: What we're conditioned to believe will happen when we take a pill, and what we think that everyone around us (including our doctors) expects will happen when we do, affects how our bodies respond to the pill.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author,

He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and killed, in her heart if not with her voice. God's reply had been that due to the high volume of calls she could expect to be on hold until she was dead.

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. "Dracula" and "The Fly" may delight and appall in equal measure, but they also gently prepare us, helping us to think about how we would respond if faced with a terrifying seduction, or a corrupted and infected body.

But Reich would eventually arrive at a more nuanced conclusion: "Bill Clinton operated by sonar. He emits a huge number of policies, ideas, and initiatives and he sees what kind if response he gets. And where he sees an opportunity to move, he moves.

Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.