Quotes About Response

Adónde volver los ojos en busca de libertad? El sacristán: —¡A Dios, que es todopoderoso! El estudiante: —¿Para qué, si no responde?... El sacristán: —Porque esa es Su Santísima voluntad... El estudiante: —¡Qué lástima! La

Wenn die Hunde bellen, dann weil wir galoppieren.

Many lives are disrupted by tragic accidents, and even the most fortunate are subjected to stresses of various kinds. Yet such blows do not necessarily diminish happiness. It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

As long as we obey the socially conditioned stimulus-response patterns that exploit our biological inclinations, we are controlled from the outside.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

It is important to realize that seeking pleasure is a reflex response built into our genes for the preservation of the species, not for the purpose of our own personal advantage.

Yet such blows do not necessarily diminish happiness. It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

But if one assumes that people have a choice in how they respond to external events, in what meaning they attribute to suffering, then one can interpret the constructive response as normal and the neurotic one as a failure to rise to the challenge, as a breakdown in the ability to flow.

Creativity testing owes its existence to World War II, when the air force commissioned J. P. Guilford, a psychologist at the University of Southern California, to study the subject. The air force wanted to select pilots who in an emergency—the unexpected failure of a gear or instrument—would respond with appropriately original behavior, saving themselves and the plane.

A reaction is how we feel; a response is what we do.

The event isn't really the problem; it's our response to the event.

There's nothing wrong with a person's temperament. But there could be a lot wrong with their behaviors, attitudes, and choices. They've been making those choices for a long time, so it's not something we can easily change. We can't guarantee that they'll make good choices, but we can choose how we respond to those choices.

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you think you do. But you know what you're really doing? When you flee through the night, or crawl into your little bolt-hole? You know what's really guiding you? Controlling you? Pushing you on? Genre conventions .

No plan survives contact with the enemy." —Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

None of us knew how to come back from this moment. This was where the script ended and we all had to improvise.

So you're saying that after I take a disappointing shower I should get in bed and lay there and weep?

Awe-inspiring, supernatural manifestations were about to happen—yet God waited until the prayer was prayed. As John Wesley so aptly stated: "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer."2

The citizens of Joplin were unwittingly being trained not to act when the sirens sounded.

I was warned when entering seminary that if I was not careful, a dangerous habit could form: I could learn to read the Bible and do nothing in response. I still remember our seminary president warning us that to study to the neglect of action becomes easier and easier with each occurrence. We should be terrified if we have mastered the art of becoming convicted and doing nothing in response.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Repartee is what you wish you'd said.

Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away. Push, shove, scratch that person while they're still within arm's reach. Don't let them get away! Who knows when you'll get this opportunity again?

we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

To every action there is a response. While generation succeeds generation, God who know's characters is hidden; One can not oppose the lord of the hand, He reaches all that the eyes can see.