Quotes About Response

The very best meditators seem even to be able to suppress their startle response, a rudimentary physiological reaction to loud noises or other sudden stimuli that is mediated through the amygdala. (The strength of one's startle response—whether measured in infancy or adulthood—has been shown to be highly correlated with the propensity to develop anxiety disorders and depression.)

The result of a physiological fear response that has no legitimate object, or that is disproportionate to the size of the threat, can be pathological anxiety—an evolutionary impulse gone awry.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it's been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.

Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the memorial to determine whether or not we're being effective in dealing with it?

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

If I've already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.