Calm Response Quotes

Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing.

They should not be knocked down with a bludgeon. They should have their threats cut with a feather.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.

More people have been hit by lightening than who have contracted anthrax. Let’s just settle down.

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.

I've experienced racism and homophobia my whole life, so I've trained myself to just deal with it calmly, to not cause a scene, and to find a way to calm the situation down.

My whole thing is this - and this is how I am in real life - if you start talking to me crazy, I'm not engaging in that. I'm just not saying anything.

Mom, is the world coming to an end?" Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth. "No, it isn'T," Mom said, folding her lawn chair and carrying it to the front of the house. "And yes, you do have to go to school tomorrow.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.

The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

Boards don't hit back.

Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!

You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

A soft answer turns away anger.

The best way to deal with aggression is to ignore it and try to get the match over as soon as possible.