Quotes About Response

The sophisticated allocation of attention has been honed by a long evolutionary history. Orienting and responding quickly to the gravest threats or most promising opportunities improved the chance of survival

Your muscles tensed up, your blood pressure rose, and your heart rate increased. Someone looking closely at your eyes while you tackled this problem would have seen your pupils dilate.

Two Systems This book has described the workings of the mind as an uneasy interaction between two fictitious characters: the automatic System 1 and the effortful System 2. You are now quite familiar with the personalities of the two systems and able to anticipate how they might respond in different situations.

It is easier to change directions in a crisis, but this was not a crisis.

the response to losses is stronger than the response to corresponding gains. This is loss aversion.

It was beyond imagining that bad font influences judgments of truth and improves cognitive performance, or that an emotional response to the cognitive ease of a triad of words mediates impressions of coherence.

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

emotional information attracts attention quickly and automatically

Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you.

fearful. Send no more troops here. We will endeavor to prevent

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.

She is violent only when violence is acted upon her first. When shown kindness, she is kind. That is the way of animals and humans alike.

creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.

When Jesus is made a social revolutionary or a prophet of wisdom, the relationship of creature to Creator is basically reduced to an ethical call that Jesus is said to give people so that they respond to

God loves the world and wants it to experience that love in Christ in such a way that it can respond to it and share it. This means, then, that no particular culture is privileged in the missionary enterprise, and no culture is rejected. All human cultures, marked as they are by the tension of being simul creatus etpeccator (simultaneously created and sinful), are honored by God as potential receivers of Christ and his calling.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Nadie es inmune a las tormentas de la vida. Aunque esté haciendo todas las cosas bien y vaya en la dirección correcta, las tormentas le alcanzarán. La cuestión no es si las tendrá o no, sino cómo responderá.

Antes que me llamen, yo les responderé

If you spend years and years dialing 4-1-1 and never practice 9-1-1, then under stress you are likely to dial 4-1-1.

as your heart rate goes up, your tunnel vision can get narrower and your auditory exclusion can increase.)

learned in World War II that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen fired their weapons at an exposed enemy soldier.

a guy shoved a gun in my face. So I shoved my gun in his face and told him, 'Arrrrarrr-arggggh!

The fight-or-flight dichotomy is the appropriate set of choices for any creature faced with danger other than that which comes from its own species. When we examine the responses of creatures confronted with aggression from their own species, the set of options expands to include posturing and submission.