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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• Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses

  Deborah Day

  Choices, Passive, Active

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

  Allan Lokos

  Events, Gaps, Patient

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.33, Penguin

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• Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

  John Dewey

  Good Man, Information, Action

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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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

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.16, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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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, Learning

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 14, 2011

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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

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2011

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• If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

  Epictetus

  Irritated, Remember, Judgment

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• Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Character, Patterns

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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

  Mindfulness, Able, Moments

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

  Rollo May

  Real, Stimulus And Response, Ability

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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

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 30, 2015

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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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• 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.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Anger, Aggression, Humans

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2007). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time”, p.239, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

  Chris Prentiss

  New Experiences, Way, Happens

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.14, BookBaby

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• The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

  Grant Cardone

  Inspirational, People, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from May 19, 2016

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• Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Soul, Siege

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• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Positivity, Intelligent

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.57, Jain Publishing Company

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• I found that whenever I encountered a situation, rather than just reacting to it, it was tremendously useful to think carefully about how I should react to it and other situations like it. Besides providing me with more thoughtful responses in each of these cases, approaching things this way provided me and others with guidance on how to deal with similar situations when they came up in the future.

  Ray Dalio

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Way

  "Ray Dalio, head of the world's largest hedge fund, explains his succession plan for Bridgewater and how its 'radically transparent' culture is misunderstood". Interview with Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2016.

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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

  Fuel, Our Actions, Becoming

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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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• Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.

  Barnet Bain

  Moving, Loss, Important

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Feelings, Behavior, Habit

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.71, Penguin

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