Quotes About Response

Everything you experience in life—both internally and externally—is the result of how you have responded to a previous event.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

Never let a tragedy go to waste.

Gunfights aren't static events and perfecting the skill of shooting while moving could mean the difference between life and death.

Good. What do you need to pull it off?" "Take a breath, look around, make a call," Reece muttered.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?' And I said, 'Here am I. Send me!

Radio traffic in your ears adds to the storm and demands a conscious response, which means one's actions in the moment must be subconscious.

Only concealment, not cover. Move, Reece!

Good ol' boys could be pushed. Wolves could be made to snap. It was time he started pushing.

the world is full of pain, uncertainty, and injustice. But in this vulnerable human life, every loss is an opportunity either to shut out the world or to stand up with dignity and let the heart respond.

Things are wrong and people misbehave, causing our hatred and suffering to arise. But however painful our experiences may be, they are just painful experiences until we add the response of aversion or hatred. Only then does suffering arise. If we react with hatred and aversion, these qualities become habitual. Like a distorted autoimmune response, our misguided reaction of hatred does not protect us; rather, it becomes the cause of our continued unhappiness.

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

Right before anger arises, there is often a sense of hurt or fear or loss. When you can feel that, you can notice how little compassion or kindness you have for yourself and others. When we feel fear or when we feel pain or when we feel hurt, our response is often anger, but what is most healing is to acknowledge the anger and to notice what causes it, and to hold that in our attention.

There are two kinds of difficulties. Some are clearly problems to solve, situations that call for compassionate action and direct response. Many more are problems we create for ourselves by struggling to make life different than it is or by becoming so caught up in our own point of view that we lose sight of a larger, wiser perspective. Usually

If you stop to think about it, even the most obvious stimulus-response transaction requires some internal messaging in the mind and body of the receiver of the stimulus. Even if you touch something hot and jerk back instantly, what really happened was that a message went up your arm to some part of your brain – "Pain down here!" – and your brain sent a reflexive message back down the arm again – "Jerk away from it!

In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.

If someone loses a key and then finds it again, which key does one keep, the old or the new? The queen replied; 'Certainly the old one.

He smiled. "Would it help if I told you I'm a gentleman?" "No." She replied and lifted her chin slightly. "How about my…lineage?" "I'm American. We don't do lineage.

In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.

We watched them dip-walk away, too young to know how to respond. The four of us together weren't something they understood. They understood girls alone, folding their arms across their breasts, praying for invisibility.

It was her, something about her- whenever she did something that felt like a raw invitation, he simply went mad in his effort to take up the gauntlet.

We must say yes to the gospel, and that yes is manifested in life as lived daily; or we can say no even by our inactivity.

I don't deny anything until I know," was the response. "I don't know that there is a supernatural force; therefore," and he shrugged his slender, stooping shoulders, "I work only from a material basis. If this manuscript states facts, then

L'hypothèse d'une rencontre........l'hypothèse d'une réponse l'hypothèse de quelqu'un