There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
quote by Russell Hoban
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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.
quote by Viktor E. Frankl
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Life just 10% of what happens and 90% of how you react
Life 10% what happens and 90% your reaction on the happenings
We are free to choose
Our response in any given situation
But we are not free to
Choose the consequences of those actions
Our actions,
Those governed by right principles
Bring positive results
Dishonesty in dealing can
Bring social consequences,
Depending on whether or not
We are found out
And
Also are our natural consequences
Fix result of our actions,
Which Indian Philosophy puts as Karma
That means our choice of response, in a way,
Is our choice of consequences
The important and decisive factor in life
Is not what happens to us
But, the way
We take towards what happens
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
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Not Asked To Leave!
An issue unresolved...
Becomes bigger to solve If ignored,
By those who choose to remain
Uninvolved.
Taking two steps to correct,
When a situation requires...
Out of breath leaps with muscles flexed,
Is not going to make a noticeable difference...
If one is accustomed to sneaking quick peeks,
To see if the time warrants bold reaction.
Or a response someone okays as acceptable.
Say what you wish about this.
But in my space...
I will explore it.
Use it as I choose.
And if you ever come into it uninvited...
Expect to get thrown out.
Not asked to leave!
In my space there is no diplomacy.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
quote by Julie Burchill
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Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
quote by Larry Summers
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Dialogue With Self
'my insider is tired...'
there's no 'mmm...'
or an 'ahh...'
in response
'this silence has
a thousand needles'
there's no 'is it so? '
'does it pain?
in response
05dec2009
14.30hrs
poem by Indira Babbellapati
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Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.
quote by Ellsworth Huntington
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So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.
quote by John W. Thompson
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I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
quote by Steven Spielberg
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Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.
quote by Richard Foreman
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But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
quote by Mercedes Ruehl
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Interview Process
I was never one,
To sit through an interview process.
When I was asked...
'Why do you wish to work for us? '
My response...
'Give me a reason to want to! '
Here's another one...
'Where do you see yourself,
In the next five years?
My response...
'Not being interviewed,
For a position I'm overqualified for! '
And when test results were revealed...
This was the exchange...
'You have done remarkably well.
In fact,
The position you most qualify for
Was 'just' filled.
We will keep your resumé in our active files.
And if a similar position opens...
You will be contacted! '
Well...
Those active files were usually discarded
In an opened trash can!
My new approach now is this...
'I want to start at least tweny dollars an hour! '
Their response...
'We can't pay that.
I'm not even getting that! '
My response...
'I can understand why you're not getting paid that.
If you can not see I am worth more than that...
I'll be surprised if you're still here...
After someone discovers you were stupid enough,
To let me walk out that door! '
And most companies fail,
For the lack of qualified employees.
Who wants to hire someone smarter than they are?
I knew of folks who trained five years...
Just learning how to file documents alphabetically.
And they have won 'Employee of the Month' awards!
But then again...
None of them 'looked' like me either!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
quote by Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Saving One The Expense
It's not worthy to discuss,
An injustice done and performed...
By the intentions of someone else,
Who professes an innocence.
The leave the experience of agonizing over this...
Remaining with the grieving receiver.
Then only thing instrumental that is critical to use,
In situations that either mentally or physically abuse...
Or both,
Is a one one one in prayer.
A response will be eventually answered.
With no doubting of its appearance.
And what has affected will be corrected,
In a way that is absolutely more creative...
Than one in despair would believe.
The Supreme Justice Unseen...
Teaches masterfully.
And the keeping of one's faith focused,
And in place...
Is all that one needs on a daily basis.
With eyes and ears kept opened wide...
Listening,
To witness lessons taught and dispensed.
Saving one the expense of additional mental detriment.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.
quote by Chris Chocola
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Dreams Coming True
Finally one of my dreams is coming
true: to be a robot, impervious, calm
undisturbed, unemotional, cool, able
to sit in one position all day long and
do just one thing - translating
No feeling response to anything as
there is no noradrenaline, no fight
or flight response - I always took
flight now almost nothing evokes
a reaction, a drug from heaven
I always wished to sit quietly like
my colleagues, do my work without
wondering about the meaning of life
or the reason for being, all feedback
To my brain interrupted, so the little
alien in my head is unaware of what's
going on and gets a rest - what bliss -
normally I'm so frustratingly anxious
And now I'm like a real human being
the stony kind - perfect to enjoy my
work - without thinking!
poem by Margaret Alice Second
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Mediocrity At My Best
If there is something,
Anything...
That you would like me to do,
For you.
Do not perceive my time as being available,
At the dropp of a hat.
Last minute situations?
I do not rush to prepare for that.
That may be 'your' custom.
And it shows in what you produce.
However...
Anything anyone gets from me,
Has a quality that time, thought and effort...
Creates!
I'm not one to deliver,
Mediocrity at my best!
And I know my response to your request,
Upsets.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.
quote by Margaret J. Wheatley
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The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
quote by Tom Brokaw
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