Quotes About Response

Capii molto più tardi che il modo in cui una persona si comporta nei confronti del dolore, rivela sul suo futuro più della maggior parte dei segni che conosco. [...]

illness is actually a learned physiological response to specific stressors.

I laugh a lot lately. People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Isolation from local needs and overexposure to overwhelming but distant need, make our responses to strangers uncertain and tentative at best

circunstancias desesperadas exigen medidas desesperadas.

Through the years, I've encountered about every attitude and response known to the human emotional spectrum. Some people thought me a courageous pioneer, others regarded me as disgusting and immoral; some of the clergy considered that I had committed an ungodly act. Why these reactions to me should be so explosively pro and con, only God or the Devil knows, and I suspect they are both puzzled.

Whatever people give you, give it back to them times ten. Be ready, always, to take everything to the next level. Someone's nice to you, make it your job to improve their day, give them a laugh or a pat on the back. But someone comes at you with attitude, or looking for a fight, you drop the fuckin' sky on their heads. Be ready either way, every day.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

Etiquette for phone solicitors: "Helen Michelle, the way you stop someone from calling again is by saying, 'Thank you so much for calling, but I've just murdered my husband and need to finish digging a hole in the backyard. Good-bye.

It came to me that to turn the other cheek, as he had done, was not simply to apply an ancient Christian precept but also to engage in a highly sophisticated psychological maneuver. 216

wrote no letters to the editor. Cool admiration, but no fire.

The moral of the story: don't react, especially when you are hungry and tired! Process the feedback at a time when you can take an honest look at what is being said.

The philosopher Epictetus said more than two thousand years ago, "Man is not troubled by events but rather how he interprets them.

It is not the event that causes our reactions but rather how we interpret the event, which makes us either confident or anxious.

Para formular una «respuesta a Job» el individuo debe enfrentarse cara a cara consigo mismo. Esta respuesta será la obra de toda su vida, puesto que, retomando el título de un libro reciente, traerá el mensaje de su «primera y última libertad».

we have witnessed in the Western world an explosion of other chronic diseases that apparently are affected by the stress response. Heart disease, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue, high blood pressure, asthma, immune system diseases, and even cancer are linked to unhealthy levels of stress and the stress hormones.

what determines how well you survive chronic stress is how you react to it and whether you are able to shut it down.

Much of the problem, though, lies not with how things have changed outside of us but with our lack of a skillful means for dealing with a challenging world.

while life has always been stressful, there is something different about how it affects us

A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.

The only cure for contempt is countercontempt.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

And see! she stirs!She starts—she moves—she seems to feelThe thrill of life along her keel.