Quotes About Response

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us.

The more limited our language is, the more limited we are; the more limited the literature we give to our children, the more limited their capacity to respond, and therefore, in their turn, to create.

There are specific situations so powerful that they can overwhelm our inherent predispositions.

Reaching the consumer with the message is not the hard part of direct marketing. What is difficult is getting consumers to stop, read the advertisement, remember it, and then act on it.

Our mind, faced with a life-threatening situation, drastically limits the range and amount of information that we have to deal with. Sound and memory and broader social understanding are sacrificed in favor of heightened awareness of the threat directly in front of us.

Wolf's first thought

We often think of authority as a response to disobedience: a child acts up, so a teacher cracks down. Stella's classroom, however, suggests something quite different: disobedience can also be a response to authority. If the teacher doesn't do her job properly, then the child will become disobedient. "With

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his...

We cannot choose our circumstances, but we can choose how we handle them.

How you define an event produces emotionand determines how you feel going forward

Your responsibility is your accurate response to the ability within you, when you respond less accurately than the ability you have it becomes irresponsibility.

It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

People are more apt to respond to crisis, than to their dreams and vision. Dare not be one of them.

How you receive and respond to moments determines the quality of your life.

Gratitude is an act that has to be expressed, not an attitude.

We can't control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to things we can't control.

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.

For example, the questions that say, Would you prefer... Would you prefer (a) Answer questions about what you do, (b) Answer questions about what you know, (c) Answer questions about what you think? My answer is Depends. But it's not one of the choices. I am having to think in terms of Always, Sometimes, Never.

As kids, our stock answer to most every question was nothing. What did you do at school today? Nothing. What's new? Nothing. Then, somewhere on the way to adulthood, we each took a 180-degree turn. We cashed in our nothing for busy.

The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between.