Quotes About Response

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Stir opponents up, making them respond to you; then you can observe their forms of behavior, and whether they are orderly or confused.

There are three avenues of opportunity: events, trends, and conditions. When opportunities occur through events but you are unable to respond, you are not smart. When opportunities become active through a trend and yet you cannot make plans, you are not wise. When opportunities emerge through conditions but you cannot act on them, you are not bold.

Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked.

You cannot shut your ears to the thunder or your eyes to the lighting—so rapid are they.' Likewise, an attack should be made so quickly that it cannot be parried.

When ears don't hear, use gongs and drums. When eyes don't see, use flags and banners.

A menos que tu corazón esté totalmente abierto y tu mente en orden, no puedes esperar ser capaz de adaptarte a responder sin límites, a manejar los acontecimientos de manera infalible, a enfrentarte a las dificultades graves e inesperadas sin turbarte, dirigiendo cada cosa sin confusión.

Now the troops of those adept in war are used like the 'Simultaneously Responding' snake of Mount Ch'ang. When struck on the head its tail attacks; when struck on the tail, its head attacks, when struck in the centre bot head and tail attack.

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity.

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

my central motive consists of a fierce belief that something must be done to rectify the miserable inadequacies of current medical responses to ovarian cancer.

To an avuncular visitor who says, "I want to commend you on your attitude toward your impending situation," I fantasize a non-Buddhist response, "At least I have a life to lose, loser.

and demand an answer." "She didn't have as good a time

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

she leaped down the porch steps to her car. There was no thought. No planning. Just action. When you get a call that your kid is in the ER, there can be no room for thinking. Just the deepest fear imaginable, the kind that gripped like a steel band around her chest.

What's it going to take to shut you up? she asked. He spread his arms, palms out, and surrendered. Give me something else to do with my mouth.

her questions shooting at him like a barrage of machine-gun fire. He thought he did okay, because he was prepared. He had spent weeks reading and researching and studying, all the while waiting for the next round of bad news about his father.

Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, receiving a telegram reading /all is discovered: fly/, will snatch a toothbrush and make for the garage. (p. 227 of 300, chapter 19)

The wheel that squeaks the loudestIs the one that gets the grease.

Don't get angry, get bangry.

It seems they are more open to responding to invitations than we are to making invitations.

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

Wear something sexy." "Asshole." "That will certainly work.

If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.