Quotes About Response

feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as from our particular needs and expectations in that moment.

When we address a group without being clear what we are wanting back, unproductive discussions will often follow. However, if even one member of a group is conscious of the importance of clearly requesting the response that is desired, he or she can extend this consciousness to the group.

Basically, there are three things that all good listeners do: They think before they speak; they listen with respect; and they're always gauging their response by asking themselves, "Is it worth it?

a simple question can trigger a simple response that's appropriate in one environment and completely wrong in another.

No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

I'm going to mark your cognition level at fifty-five percent." "Fuck you." "Let's make that sixty percent.")

Can I ask you a question?" I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always "no" or just give in to the inevitable?

There was a big huge deal about it, and Security was all "but what if it takes over the station's systems and kills everybody" and Pin-Lee told them "if it wanted to do that it would have done it by now," which in hindsight was probably not the best response.

Now she was talking to me like I was a hysterical human. Worse, I was acting like a hysterical human.

I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.

It tried to alert its onboard SecSystem, but as the old saying (which I just made up) goes, if you can ping the SecUnit, it's way too late.

2.0 said I know violence isn't the solution to everything, but in this case... In this case, yeah.

Miki, damage report." "I am at eighty-six percent functional capacity." It held up its arm stump. "It's only a flesh wound.

Target Two whispered something, which FacilitySys rendered as "What are you?" I said, "I'm a Shut Up or Get Your Head Smashed.

Humans and augmented humans shift their weight when they stand, they react to sudden sounds and bright lights, they scratch themselves, they adjust their hair, they look in their pockets or bags to check for things that they already know are in there.

Yellow came towards me and touched the side of my helmet. It took tremendous effort for me not to rip his arm off, and I'd like that noted for the record, please.

Humans never think to tell their bots things like, say, don't respond to random individuals wandering the outside of the station. Bots are instructed to report and repel theft attempts, but no one ever tells them not to answer polite requests from other bots.)

Le envío pings, pero no recibo respuesta.

I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.

Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.

Leadership is an improvisational art. You may have an overarching vision, clear, orienting values, and even a strategic plan, but what you actually do from moment to moment cannot be scripted. To be effective, you must respond to what is happening.

It's not what happens to you but how you deal with it.

Be serene. It is not what happens to you, it is how you deal with it.