Quotes About Response

Ako se desi nesto lose,pijes da zaboravis;ako se desi nesto lepo,pijes da proslavis;a ako se nista ne desava,pijes da bi se nesto desilo.

Faced with information that contradicts what they believe, people tend to respond in one of two ways. Some ignore the new knowledge and hold to their former beliefs. Others accept the validity of the new information, factor it into their perception of reality, and put it to use.

The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor Frankl (1984) Author of Man's Search for Meaning

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

We see the same scenario all too often today. People are told the good news of salvation by grace alone, only to respond with, "That's too simple. Where's the dignity? Where's the effort? If it's all that life changing, surely something sacrificial is required of me!

There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger.

It's insane, but no more insane than Japan shutting down its entire nuclear reactor fleet in the middle of a heat wave because an extreme tsunami washed over one plant, or the USA invading a noninvolved Middle Eastern nation because a gang of crazies from somewhere else knocked down two skyscrapers. In a sufficiently large crisis, sane and measured responses go out the window.

And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies: (a) is a problem: Something Must Be Done, (b) is Something, Therefore (b) Must Be Done.

You said a bad word!" Lyssa hammed it up, eyes wide and limpid, and cranked her tear ducts all the way from Flood Danger: Raise the Thames Barrier to Critical Emergency: Three Gorges Spillway Eroding.

In a sufficiently large crisis, sane and measured responses go out the window.

Lockhart glares at him furiously. "Sitrep, then get out." "What was that—" Pete begins, his words already in motion before he processes Lockhart's reaction. "That was the last we'll hear from a very brave woman. Or a very stupid one. Damn.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.

We had long passed the stage where the consequences of tactical armed response were weighed in advance.

Everything hurts. People are talking in the halls, but no one seems to be evacuating the building. This is the nature of New York City: alarms go off so often that no one wants to respond to them until things start burning down or blowing up in front of their eyes.

When a man blasphemes, what do we do? Do we go and stop his mouth? No. We put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. This is a wise action.

Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to sit down and compose a letter to the author, something very powerful has happened. Things Fall Apart has brought me a large body of such correspondence from people of different ages and backgrounds and from all the continents.

When a man blasphemes, what do we do? Do we go and stop his mouth? No. We put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. That is a wise action.

We have a saying that a toad does not run in the day unless something is after it.

El mundo está cambiando ?le había dicho?. No me gusta, pero soy como el pájaro eneke-nti-oba, que cuando sus amigos le preguntaron por que volaba a todas horas respondió: Los hombres de hoy han aprendido a disparar sin errar y por eso yo he aprendido a volar sin posarme en las ramas.

Generosity is not so much a virtuous act as it is a virtuous response.

A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow.