Response Quotes

• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Peace, Freedom

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• Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

  Stephen Covey

  Responsibility, People, Choices

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• Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

  Tony Dungy

  Attitude, Circumstances, Quiet Strength

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• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Positivity, Intelligent

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• Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Knowledge

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• Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Memories, Science, Technology

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• Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

  Rollo May

  Real, Stimulus, Ability

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• Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Able, Mindfulness, Moments

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• We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

  Allan Massie

  Action, Responsible, Circumstances

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• One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can.
  
  Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fear, Love You, World

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• Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

  Louie Giglio

  Our Actions, Becoming, Fuel

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• The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• 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

  Spiritual, Healing, Health

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• To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Brain, Offers

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• Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.

  John Stott

  Intelligent, Names, Impossible

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• If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

  David Hood

  Learning, Demand, Gaps

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• I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both have a vision of universal human equity.

  Helen LaKelly Hunt

  God, Vision, Feminism

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• Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

  Ram Dass

  Heart, Compassion, Suffering

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• The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Healing, Carpe Diem

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• The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Carpe Diem, Differences

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• Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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• A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a public meeting the Prophet Joseph, possibly as a test, sternly rebuked Brigham Young for something he had done or something he was supposed to have done but hadn't - the detail is unclear. When Joseph finished the rebuke, everyone in the room waited for Brigham Young's response. This powerful man, later known as the Lion of the Lord, in a voice everyone could tell was sincere, said simply and humbly, "Joseph, what do you want me to do?"

  Truman G. Madsen

  Powerful, Humility, Men

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