A Quote by Stephen Covey

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Stephen Covey

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Attitude Space Between Choose Our Response Stimulus Stimulus And Response

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Stephen Covey
American - Educator
October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

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

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

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

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

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Viktor E. Frankl

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

Tara Brach

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

Stephen Covey

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

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

Rollo May

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

Stephen Covey

When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.

Richard Norton Smith

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

Sharon Salzberg

Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life.

Roma Downey

Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.

Stephen Covey

Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point about the difference between a reaction and a response: You may not have control over your initial reaction to something, but you can decide what your response will be. You don't have to be at the mercy of your emotions, and acceptance can be your first step toward empowerment . . . For me, acceptance has been the cornerstone to my having an emotionally healthy response to my illness.