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.

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

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.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

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.

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

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

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.

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

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

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

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.