Response Quotes

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

Events are less important than our responses to them.

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate.

Whatever the attitude, so is the response.

Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.

Global challenges require collective responses.

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

I picture success and winning. The body has a physical response to mental images of winning.

Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

Words have a life; without response they die.

An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.

Who? Who is that? (J.R.'s response when asked about opponent Jason Terry.)

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

If you don't like your outcomes, change your responses.

But I'm concerned about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

The day you change your responses is the day your life will begin to get better.

nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.