Stimulus And 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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• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Motivational, Running, Caring

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.49, Jaico Publishing House

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• One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Freedom, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Space, Choices

  "First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy". Book by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, 1994.

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• The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Life Changing

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.198, Mango Media Inc.

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• Live out of your imagination, not your history.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Stephen R. Covey (1999). “Choice: Choosing the Proactive Life You Want to Live”, Franklincovey

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• Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Chaos, Mans Search For Meaning, Authentic Happiness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.136, Beacon Press

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Healing, Conflict, Freedom To Choose

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• Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Business, Management

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

  Stephen Covey

  Exercise, Space, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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

  Rollo May

  Real, Ability, Pauses

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• Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Attitude, Freedom

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Men, What Matters

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

  Tara Brach

  Lying, Space, Choices

  "What Is Mindfulness? 10 Answers From 10 Teachers". Interview with Kellie Edwards, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2014.

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• Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

  Rollo May

  Self, Wish, Weight

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• 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.

  Roma Downey

  Space, Praying, Reactions

  "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Your mind, in order to defend itself starts to give life to inanimate objects. When that happens it solves the problem of stimulus and response because literally if you're by yourself you lose the element of stimulus and response. Somebody asks a question, you give a response. So, when you lose the stimulus and response, what I connected to is that you actually create all the stimulus and response.

  Willi Smith

  Order, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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