Reacting And Responding Quotes & Sayings

They felt their cruelties had no implications. They excluded me with no sense of scale. I at least knew my importance. — Louisa Hall

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. — Bill Johnson

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life. — Melody Beattie

That's the problem with heartbreak, to you it's like an atomic bomb but to the world it's just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience. — Olivia

The Perpetrator's Narrative: The story begins with the harmful act. At the time I had good reasons for doing it. Perhaps I was responding to an immediate provocation. Or I was just reacting to the situation in a way that any reasonable person would. I had a perfect right to do what I did, and it's unfair to blame me for it. The harm was minor, and easily repaired, and I apologized. It's time to get over it, put it behind us, let bygones be bygones. The — Steven Pinker

Stop reacting to the stereotypes and start responding to the individual. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I don't feel drugs should be illegal. I don't think people should take drugs every day, but I don't see any difference with people taking drugs like they drink. Take drugs on Saturday night and go to a party and have a good time and have somebody drive you home or whatever it is so you don't hurt anybody else, that's fine. But if you wake up Monday morning and take 'em again you're a drug addict. But, they should be legal. — Sonny Barger

At the heart of vulnerability lies the willingness of people to abandon their pride and their fear, to sacrifice their egos for the collective good of the team. While this can be a little threatening and uncomfortable at first, ultimately it becomes liberating for people who are tired of spending time and energy overthinking their actions and managing interpersonal politics at work. — Patrick Lencioni

When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day. — Jeff Davidson

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure — Steve Largent

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. — Luka Sulic

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. — Mary Robinson

To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time
they need to be able to picture themselves in the future ... If they can't, then they're simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment
for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance. — Stanley Greenspan

12 The one who has the Son has life. o The one who doesn't have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name p of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. — Anonymous

By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship. — Steve Maraboli

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it. — Jerry Hall

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. — Francois Fenelon

No one looks up at the sky anymore. — Megan K. Olsen

Too often in life we pass by important things. Let's pause, change perspective and see things more clearly. — Sergio Pinto