Events Quote by John Hersey Download Open image “Events are less important than our responses to them.” — John Hersey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events Important Inspirational Response
“Our responses to events are far more significant than the events themselves” — Sarah Napthali Copy Share Image
Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves. — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all. — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening. — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards. — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that?… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.” — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence,… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“…she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
