Response Quotes

We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.

Plant medicines work beyond the physical response; sometimes, it's your spirit or emotion that needs healing, and plant medicines can address that also.

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.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

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

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

It won't matter who my friends were; it won't matter my endorsements; what matters is my heart's response to him.

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

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

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.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

Our response has been, "Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table." That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, "Well, what do you think the United States should do?" My response is, "Why should the United States do anything?"

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

Gravity is a response to geometry.

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.

People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

We are flattered to witness the response generated by the beta program and are working towards accommodating all pending sign up requests as soon as we launch live.

Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we'd imagined.

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

"I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.

Sadness isn't a natural response.

You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.