Quotes About Response

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

To innovate and move forward you must provoke the market for a response and respond to it.

This set point reaction, this relational modus operandi, is your relational stance, the thing you will do over and over again when you are stressed.

Or am I speaking to a triggered part of you, to your adversarial you and me consciousness? The triggered part of you sees things through the prism of the past. I believe there's no such thing as overreacting; it's just that what someone is reacting to may no longer be what's in front of them.

But most of us do not reenact the experience of the trauma itself. Instead, we act out the coping strategy that we evolved to deal with it.

As for flight, just a reminder that someone can sit inches away from another and still flee—they just do so internally. We call that stonewalling.

One of the telltale characteristics of the you and me Adaptive Child is that it is automatic, a knee-jerk response.

This reactive approach to relationships is inherently individualistic.

It's the Whoosh, the visceral reaction that comes up from the feet like a wave washing over your body. I speak of it as our first consciousness, and I divide it into three reactions—fight, flight, or fix.

Remedy it or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices.

I look him straight in the eyes. I know I should not do this, but it has always been this way with me. Once I feel fear, I can stand it for only so long before I become angry.

when something painful or disagreeable happens to me, instead of a melancholy look, I answer by a smile. At first I did not always succeed, but now it has become a habit which I am glad to have acquired.

I also understood that there are many degrees of holiness, that each soul is free to respond to the calls of Our Lord, to do much or little for His Love—in a word, to choose amongst the sacrifices He asks.

It is only the sentimentalist who imagines that the profundity of a person's response to tragedy is proportional to the length, volume, or shrillness of his lamentation.

I think, however, the current fascination with the computer and its principal product, information, deserves a more critical response. This is because the computer does so ingeniously mimic human intelligence that it may significantly shake our confidence in the uses of the mind. And it is the mind that must think about all things, including the computer.