“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
“Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!”
Source: p.13-14 Thank You and You're Welcome (2009)
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Variant: Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
“What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
Source: The devil in the hills (1949), Chapter 11, p. 327
“Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.”
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 27
Kōnosuke Matsushita in: Cherry blossoms and robotics, 1983; Cited in: John R. Schermerhorn (1993), Management for productivity, p. 170
