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Quotes About Response

Most people respond automatically to their given circle of representation, and strengthen it by their unconscious allegiance. Since their cultural circle is made of many conflicting drives for their allegiance, their lives are fragmented and ambiguous.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
However, Christianity has come to present us a new idea, all the more powerful in that it rests on a universal idea as old as the world, and that we needed to be rectified and sanctioned by revelation. So when the guilty ask us it is why the innocent suffer in his world, we are not lacking in responses, as you have seen, but we can choose one that is more direct and perhaps more convincing than all the others. We can reply: Innocence suffers for you, if you wish it.
~ Joseph de Maistre
We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens to us, how we take it, what we do with it and that is what really counts in the end.
~ Joseph Fort Newton
The same network is suppressed in states of hypnosis, in which the person is fully awake and responsive, but external awareness is altered (by way of hypnotic suggestion, attention to certain stimuli can be diminished).
~ Joseph LeDoux
Prolonged exposure therapy, a variant of flooding, attempts to maintain a high level of fear arousal, but its key premise is that all aspects of fear, as defined by Lang's three response systems (behavioral avoidance, physiological responses, and verbal behavior), have to be reduced in order for exposure to be effective.
~ Joseph LeDoux
When an enemy throws the worst it can at us we must meet it with the best we have.
~ Joseph M. Marshall III
He awakened to the simple truth that it is never what a person says or does that affects him, it is his reaction to what is said or done that matters.
~ Joseph Murphy
What happened?" Sagewhisker demanded. "The rats happened," Scorchwind growled.
~ Erin Hunter
No!" Firestar yowled, but there was no response from the forest, just the steady whisper of blood lapping hungrily at his fur.
~ Erin Hunter
Berrynose." "Oh, thank you!
~ Erin Hunter
The old tabby gave a startled snort, looking around wildly. "What is it? Foxes? Let me get at 'em!
~ Erin Hunter
biting your head off
~ Erin Hunter
Because I was afraid she would claw my ears off if I forbade her from going," Bramblestar responded drily. "And I would have," Sandstorm muttered.
~ Erin Hunter
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
~ Erma Bombeck
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
~ Erma Bombeck
Fear is, as Freud would say, nothing but a signal--the more effective the more acute and unpleasant it is.
~ ERMANNO BENCIVENGA
Goddammit!" he shouted. "Well, what am I supposed to do with it now?" "You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog." COURTESY
~ Ernest Cline
I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first.
~ Ernest Cline
Smooth move, Ex-lax," I heard Art3mis say.
~ Ernest Cline
You're welcome.
~ Ernest Cline
first aid kit
~ Ernest Cline
Como canta de noche la esquirina al esquirín que está sobre otra rama: "Esquirín, si querés que vaya, iré si querés que vaya iré" y a su rama la llama el esquirín: "Esquirina, si querés venir, vení, si querés venir vení", y cuando ella se va donde él está el esquirín se va para otra rama: así te llamo yo a ti, y tú te vas.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Tom isn't an evil person—he is well regarded in his company. Neither is Brad, who is actually quite lovely with colleagues. Anyone can be knocked off balance and may respond incongruently. Incongruence does not make someone a bad person, but it can render them less effective. Situations that involve significant change are particularly likely to cause people to lose balance.
~ Esther Derby
This is the simple basis of this eternally expanding Universe: • Variety causes contemplation. • Contemplation produces preference. • Preference is asking. • Asking is always answered.
~ Esther Hicks