"Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it."

-- Chris Hadfield

#Fighting Quotes #Training Quotes #Exit Quotes

“There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.”
“God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.”
“In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.”
“I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.”
“You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.”
“I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.”
“I have been very lucky. I have always been able to eat and drink and dance in my life so I am not afraid of anything. And if suddenly I should have nothing I would still be grateful.”
“Let no day slip over without some comfort received of the Word of God.”

Source : "Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland".

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