Quotes About Response

Who's there?

Are you unwell? You aren't going to vomit on me, are you?" "That wasn't on my list of planned activities for the afternoon, no, but if you really insist, I suppose I could try for a hairball or something.

You look adorable! (heart)" "Aw, shut up!

There are times, beloved, when God will place you in the middle of trials—a hospital stay, rejection, a financial blow. He lets you hurt as others hurt, knowing that the way you handle it will be a testimony, that your response will show others that there's something awesomely different about you.

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

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

What he tried to explain to his players was that being humbled—having some sort of setback—was inevitable in life, but that the real measure of a man was how he reacted to being knocked down. Would he wallow on the ground feeling sorry for himself? Accepting his ultimate defeat? Or would he climb off the turf and go back to work, infused with a renewed determination to transcend the setback?

One day, when I was eighteen, I was reading a book and I began to weep. I was astounded. I'd had no idea that literature could affect me in such a way. If I'd have wept over a poem in class the teacher would have been appalled. I realised that my school had been teaching me not to respond.

Much spiritual self-help today fails because the focus remains exclusively on the self How can I grow? How can I experience God more fully? How can I access the power of the Holy Spirit? How can I develop my faith? All of these are limited questions that lead to disappointment because they do not focus on God. The unison voice of the classical spiritual teachers recounts that spiritual growth always begins with an awareness of the character and nature of God. God starts the process; we respond.

Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

lo que determina nuestra vida no es lo que nos pasa sino lo que hacemos con lo que sucede.

Between life's stimuli and our habitual responses exists choice.

A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.

Notice the Scripture says, "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing." If they "rail" on you, don't rail on them, "but contrariwise blessing." Blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing.

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it...I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet...I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don't have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

I am convinced that prayer, effective praying, is a divine gift that comes while praying. Sounds odd, prayer comes while you are praying? But I think that really there is praying which gets results and that is fine, but then there is praying that gets into the center of God's will and gets bigger results and also leaves the soul at peace, satisfied that God's will has been contacted and God has responded with peace in the heart.

Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers.

in our civilized life, we have stripped so many ideas of their emotional energy, we do not really respond to them any more. We