Response Quotes

The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body’s direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body’s response to thought. Indirectly, an emotion can also be a response to an actual situation or event, but it will be a response to the event seen through the filter of a mental interpretation, the future of thought, that is to say, through the mental concepts of good and bad, like and dislike, me and mine.

~ Eckhart Tolle

God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.

~ Jared Brock

The upper management team had informed me that an employee that worked for me was a poor performer and would be terminated soon. This employee was clearly displaying mental health issues that were causing problems in the workplace. When I followed the company procedures and reported this to human resources, their response was to inform me that my contract would not be renewed and I would be immediately fired if anyone complained about me. This was my introduction to how mental health issues are handled in the USA.

~ Steven Magee

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

~ Fanny Fern

If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence.

~ Steven Magee

We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of the events.

~ Piyush Shrivastav

Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of events.

~ Piyush Shrivastav

Certainly we struggle as victims of other people’s unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.

~ Larry Crabb

There are so many responses to the truth that would please the heart of our master. Heaven awaits only your decision.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You’ll never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control.

~ John Mark Green

It's not how well you communicate, but how intensely you have blended emotions with words that provides hints and triggers audiences mind to decipher and respond without your influence is what matters!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Plants can feel pressure and emotion. When something is said or done with intention, a plant can respond. So every day we tell our tree that it is beautiful, it will get more and more beautiful. I hope that tree knew how beautiful I thought it was.

~ Kate Mcgahan

DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.

~ Deborah Bray Haddock

The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors and said they didn’t belong. Said these people were good and those people were evil, and it kept going, because people always responded, and pretty soon the place was a roaring hell because no one took responsibility for what they did, and how it would drive others to respond.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

When you react, you let other control you. When you respond, you are in control.

~ Bohdi Sanders

You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

~ Criss Jami

The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly.

~ Anne Bishop

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need.

~ Diana Athill

When you realize that the feeling you have — is — the response you choose, you are free in that moment.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your persistent problems are because of your response to common misfortune.

~ Bryant Mcgill

...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

~ John Geddes

It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results.

~ Steven Redhead

How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.

~ Stormie Omartian

When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

~ Stephen Covey

I get called 'Mayor West' a lot in airports. I've been very fortunate to have a fan base that keeps growing, and the work gets such a warm response and humor from people.

~ Adam West

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

~ Austin Farrer

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

~ Deepak Chopra

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

~ Lincoln Chafee

I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously.

~ Jeff Duncan

Baking has always been one of my many hobbies. After I uploaded my first baking tutorial video, I got a really positive response from the online community, and they started to demand more videos like that.

~ Rosanna Pansino

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

~ Norman Foster

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

~ Liz Phair

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

~ Meg Greenfield

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

~ James S. Coleman

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

~ Mohsin Hamid