Quotes About Response

Only a fool rises to the bait of h'another fool.

More than a doctrine, preemption has taken on a life of its own. It launches into operation wherever threat is felt. In today's multidimensional "threat environment," that is everywhere.

Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit

I believe in what you do -You do? -Sure, what do you do? -Out!

if you feel a certain way, you will act in a manner consistent with that feeling.

To counter this technique, when someone says that you must make a decision immediately or you will lose special terms or conditions, you reply by saying: "If I have to make a decision immediately, the answer is no. But if I have an opportunity to consider your offer carefully, the answer may be different.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than being the victim of change

En el análisis final, la pregunta de por qué le pasan cosas malas a la gente buena se transmuta en preguntas muy diferentes; ya no se pregunta por qué sucedió algo, se pregunta cómo responderemos, qué pretendemos hacer ahora que sucedió.

Cuando una persona te dice que no, no te está rechazando como persona. Simplemente está diciendo no a tu oferta, a tu presentación o a tus precios.

People were almost twice as likely to reach for a comfort food when they were happy than when they were sad.

If you see you're going to get popped in a fair fight, don't fight fair.

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that

Cuando se desarrolla un comportamiento preprogramado, la vigilante mente consciente puede intervenir, detener dicho comportamiento y crear una nueva respuesta.

In Tracer Shells, 2002, forty-six cats with bright-white fluron-tipped tails, leap over upturned chairs and tables (depicting social chaos) in response to rapid bursts of recorded machine-gun fire. In the darkened space the effect is startling, the message disturbing, and the method ethically challenging.

our feelings are signals that can provide us with the information we need to take care of ourselves appropriately

Just as ants do when their nest is disturbed, we return, survey the damage, and then without hesitation immediately get to work rebuilding.

Jerry Crosby was looking out a window at the immaculate green yard, where a lawn worker's leaf blower had caught fire. The worker calmly heaved it in the swimming pool and ambled away.

Elle m'appelle encore ton ex-père? -Ça lui arrive , répondit Fry. D'autres fois c'est juste ton vaurien de narcotrafiquants de père.

What happened to your eye, young lady?" "I fell down the stairs. What happened to your hair?

A fire smokes the most when you start pouring water on it.

Place a loaded pistol in a playpen and the babies will play with it just like any other toy, giggle, and perhaps even place the gun in their mouth. In contrast, put a plastic snake into the playpen; the babies will cower in fear. Show a person of any age a snake —or even a picture of one —and you will elicit a dramatic response, including sweaty skin and an increased heart rate. It doesn't matter whether the person is in America, Europe, Japan, Australia, or Argentina

When the Dublin-born Beckett was asked by a Parisian journalist whether he was English, he replied, 'On the contrary.

Quando os espetadores de uma comédia riem às gargalhadas, estão a responder a uma situação no palco, mas também à boa-disposição uns dos outros, deleitando-se com essa solidariedade de som e com a fraternidade momentânea que ela fomenta.

Though it hadn't been in his mind, and even though he would not entertain such an offer, he was nevertheless disappointed to find she thought the idea repulsive.