Quotes About Response

Blue still did not organize a response to the emergency. Instead, the senior Public Health Service officer in charge of the city of Washington reiterated to the press that there was no cause for alarm.

Mexico spent $180 million to fight the disease, but suffered $9 billion in economic losses because of the irrational response from trading partners—not exactly positive reinforcement if the goal is to encourage candor the next time.

In 1918 especially, this question of balance played a crucial role in the war between virus and immune system, and between life and death. The virus was often so efficient at invading the lungs that the immune system had to mount a massive response to it. What was killing young adults a few days after the first symptom was not the virus. The killer was the massive immune response itself.

All this together is called the "immune response," and once the immune system is mobilized, it is formidable indeed. But all this takes time. The delay can allow infections to gain a foothold in the body, even to advance in raging cadres that can kill.

After it defeats an infection, specialized white cells (called "memory T cells") and antibodies that bind to the antigen remain in the body. If any invader carrying the same antigen attacks again, the immune system responds far more quickly than the first time. When the immune system can respond so quickly that a new infection will not even cause symptoms, people become immune to the disease.

But as Camus knew, evil and crises do not make all men rise above themselves. Crises only make them discover themselves. And some discover a less inspiring humanity.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

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

Since most callers have until moments before been completely unaware that there are bears in New Jersey, there is often in their voices a component of alarm, up to and including terror. McConnell's response is calmer than pavement. She speaks in tones that range from ho to hum. "Yes, there are bears in your area," she says, and goes on to say, with an added hint of congratulation, "You live in beautiful bear habitat.

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

Imagine this:Ice is coming to YOUR house.Can you HEAR it knocking?Are you ready?What will YOU do?

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.