Quotes About Response

Emotions get our attention.

Experiments show that infants just entering the third trimester will move or alter their heart rate, or both, in response to a strong light beamed at the womb.

Without a flexible, immediately available, highly regulated stress response, we would die. Remember, the brain is the world's most sophisticated survival organ. All

Most of its functions involve what some researchers call the "four Fs": fighting, feeding, fleeing, and … reproductive behavior.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and attitudes do color life...but you have been given the mind to choose what the colors will be.

My unique brand of depression responds to stress; specifically, it blows up under stress. When the going gets tough, I don't get amped up, I get despondent

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

When asked to identify what the law is about, Jesus' response was simply "Love God, love people." He named a fundamentally different way of identifying who are the children of God: "Do they love God, and do they love the people who mean so much to him?

Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Discernment emerges from understanding the nature of the conflict and what level of response is needed to deal with it adequately. Creativity is needed for flexibility and innovation.

In conflict, before we even hear what the other side has said, we assume we know what they mean. We have already attached motives to their messages. Often, even before they have finished, we are developing our response.

Satan . . . afflicted Job with loathsome sores," Job's response was, "Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

Emotionalism can also assume that heightened feelings are the infallible sign that God is present. They're not. The emotions that singing is meant to evoke are responses to the truths we're singing about God—his glory, his greatness, and his goodness.

have also assumed that the mark of this people is not merely that they are "chosen before the foundation of the world," but that they have willingly responded to God in a certain way. In this chapter I have focused mainly

Knock, knock! Who's there? Europe. Europe who? No, you're a poo.

measures against the Bolsheviki. Daily

He who laughs last is generally the one that thought fastest on his feet

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

Compassion is not just an emotion; it is a feeling that triggers a response. Compassion marries empathy and action. It also requires respect for those who will come after us—a commitment to stewardship.

There are two categories of people when it comes to extreme situations," said the leopard specialist Vasily Solkin. "One gets scared first and then starts thinking; the other starts thinking first and gets scared after the fact. Only the latter survive in the taiga.

Ain't got no strawberries," the bartender said. "Then go out and kill some!

A mere month and a half after 9/11, the structure for a new governmental scheme was in place. The

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.