Quotes About Response

A gentle answer turns away wrath.

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love.

To respond to anger is to attempt to slay a dragon with a wet noodle.The best you can do is hope the anger remembers the love.~Bluenscottish

She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in response. Instead, she spoke the truth. "If we make it out of here alive, I'm going to kiss you unconscious.

Seeing her cry still made me feel the same way it did earlier.

Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply because you show little or no response to their affection?

Then I wondered, what if?What if he kissed me? What if he told me I was beautiful? What if he told me he loved me?What would I say in return?

Autosuggestion acts by itself, unconsciously, like a machine that reacts in the same way from the same stimulus

Most people are not influenced by reason; they are swayed by emotion.

Any emergency which arouses the emotions, and causes the heart to beat more rapidly than normal may, and generally does, bring the sixth sense into action.

Cold reasoning has no influence whatsoever on the subconscious mind. The subconscious responds only to the impulses of thought that have been emotionalized or mixed with strong feelings.

Noteworthy is the fact that this 'other self' seldom exerts its influence or makes itself known excepting at times of unusual emergency, when men are forced, through adversity and temporary defeat

One useful trick, I discovered, is to avoid listening to the question of the interviewer, and answer with whatever I have been thinking about recently. Remarkably, neither the interviewers nor the public notices the absence of correlation between question and answer.

Light control works; close control leads to overreaction

Frano Barovi? reading this chapter wrote to me: "Machines: use it and lose it; organisms: use it or lose it." Also note that everything alive needs stressors, but not all machines need to be left alone—a point we will visit in our discussion of annealing. But

system that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode

the project managers incur only small errors and can adapt to them.

taking the other side of fragility makes you antifragile.)

humans may have an instinct to procrastinate only when no life is in danger.

as to what to do in the event of losses.

they needed additional safety features and scrambled to add them, at any cost.

Whenever your survival is in play, don't immediately look for causes and effects.

the more nonlinear the response, the less relevant the average, and the more relevant the stability around such average.