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The flight response, when our value feels at risk, is a means of minimizing the threat by avoiding conflict with others altogether.

Though few [distractions] are truly threatening and most are relatively trivial, they’re often very seductive and compelling.

A nation state must protect its citizens, to ensure that we live free from fear. To do that, it must maintain armed forces to defend against foreign threats, establish justice and insure domestic tranquility.

One obvious threat to the harmony of a profession is rapid scientific or technological advances.

…the right leaders feel a sense of urgency in good times and bad, whether facing threat or opportunity, no matter what.

Get the maximum number of brains on the problem even if the problems represent existential threats.

There may be nothing scarier in business than facing an existential threat.

The point of becoming a change agent is that it changes the mindset of the entire organization. Instead of seeing change as a threat, its people will come to consider it as an opportunity.

The business that establishes itself in a specialty-skill niche is… unlikely to be threatened by its customers or by its suppliers.

Evidence shows that when we view hurdles as threats, we tend to back down and give up. When we treat barriers as challenges to conquer, we rise to the occasion.