“Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow (reductionistic) and instrumental (mechanistic) response to a problem that is fundamentally conceptual: namely, our attitude toward life and our mistreatment of the Earth, plants, and animals-and ourselves in the process.” PeopleProblemEarthProcessAnimalAttitudePlantResponseEnvironmentalMedicalEngineeringPollutionSusceptiblePlants And AnimalsGenetic EngineeringMistreatmentMedical Problems Author:Michael Fox
“When I published my first novel, Slammed, I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.” FirstsNovelBrotherReaderBandResponseMy FavoriteChaptersFavorite BandsPositive Response Author:Colleen Hoover
“I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, 'You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare.'” IfsThinkingKnowsHeartCareersHavensTomorrowBlessingNormalOkayResponsePianoPositive Response Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I thought it was important to speak about what I believe would be the right response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'm pleased to hear there is more sanctions maybe coming tomorrow. But the truth of the matter is I think we need less talk and more deeds.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveImportantMatterWould BeSpeakI BelieveTomorrowResponseDeedsAggressionUkraineSanctions Author:Mike Pence
“Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right strategic response to Russian aggression.” ThinkingResponseRepublicAggressionEntitledShieldsStrategicJoiningMissilesNatoPolandCzechCzech Republic Author:Mike Pence
“I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. And you say - I said, you see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.” SaidRoomsRaceStrangeSkinsResponseReportersNprNeurosurgeonsOperating Room Author:Benjamin Carson
“Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.” ChoicesLove IsResponseControl Myself Author:Natalie Portman
“You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.” PeopleBookActorsResponsibilitySubjectsEmotionalReadyHugeResponseNot ReadyEmotional ResponseContentious Author:Stephen Daldry
“For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.” ThinkingHumansNaturalLossEmotionResponseNostalgiaInvoluntary Author:Michael Chabon
“Social media is really the heart of keeping in touch with your fans. I love it. You can try out new music on your fans, get immediate responses, spread the word about anything. It's really great. To reach me is to tweet me.” TryingHeartResponseSocial MediaSpreadReally GreatTweet Author:Ty Stone
“Muscle cells strengthen in response to intense exercise - whether you're 18 or 88. But the intensity is what's lacking in most people's workouts. And there are doctors who'll give you the advice, "Well, don't push it."” PeopleGivingWellsAdviceExerciseDoctorsResponseIntenseCellsMusclesIntensityLackingWorkoutDoctor Who Author:Jack LaLanne
“I marvel now that it was not obvious how inextricable suffering and fear are. It was not until fear left that I noticed, slowly, how it seemed to have taken suffering with it. It took a while to figure out that (for me, anyhow) suffering is mostly caused by fear-not by the circumstances themselves, but by my response to them.” SufferingLeftFearTakenFiguresCircumstancesResponseObviousFear Not Book:When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening Source: When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening
“Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.” WayWantPlayGirlAsksDifferencesLike YouMessagesResponsePhonesMaking A DifferenceGet BackPhone CallsTextingText MessagePower PlayGet A Girl Author:Michael B. Jordan
“I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.” PeopleGivingFilmAsksSidesDarkAudienceProudReflectionTheaterResponseCommunicateAppealsCommunionPreferenceThrilling Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“It's really amazing to be a part of something that people have an emotional response to, even though it's a network sitcom. When you get a chance to meet fans or interact with them, you realize that there are a lot of people who the show speaks to, and that they really get something out of it, beyond just laughing. That's really fulfilling.” PeopleShowsSpeakRealizingChanceLaughingFansEmotionalResponseFulfillingSitcomReally AmazingEmotional Response Author:Gillian Jacobs
“It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.” EnjoyActingResponsePursueMediumsGood Times Author:Lenny Kravitz
“That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.” PeopleAudienceHonestResponseBeing HonestMisunderstanding Author:Todd Solondz
“The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.” MayChildrenLittlesMomentsCharacterRealityCultureSpiritualityIndividualImaginationNaturalSimpleExistenceSilenceModernTelevisionGunResponseMonstersTendenciesDestroyedThoughtfulOriginalityToysConsumerismDominantInclinationYellingOverconsumptionDressed UpAbsorptionBrashDominant CultureToy Guns Author:Thomas Merton
“With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.” IfsKnowsYearsIdeasAudienceComedyFrontsResponseNo IdeaGoing To Work Author:Steve Martin
“One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot.'” FirstsBookChristianReaderTreatsAgreeResponseIdiotNot Sure Author:Timothy Keller
“His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that a benevolent response in all circumstances will be the most healing one. I think he is so universally admired becuase he exemplifies by his behavior the truth that the essence of natural mind, unclouded by greed or anger or delusion, is that of peace.” ThinkingMindOrderPeaceUnderstandingNaturalHealingCircumstancesBehaviorEssenceResponseGreedDelusionSensiblePreciseBenevolent Author:Sylvia Boorstein
“Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.” MindCausesPureSacredResponseDefeatPurityPurificationMake Up Your Mind Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingDifferentCertainFallActorsDifficultLaughingComedyKeysDramaNotesResponseRhythmInstantGet AwayFlatsSensibilityOrchestraGood WritingGreat ActorsComedicMake Someone Laugh Author:Aimee Garcia
“The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll tell you exactly what they liked and didn't like, and when they're enthusiastic, they're unashamedly enthusiastic. They'll talk to you about your characters as if they were real people, which is wonderful.” PeopleIfsGivingWritingRealCharacterAudienceWonderfulResponseGreat ThingsEnthusiastic Author:Cassandra Clare
“Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space.” GovernmentSpacePleaseResponseBlowAustraliaRemoveSpidersAustralianOuter Space Author:Eddie Izzard
“Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.” PeopleKnowsWayDoeHelpingBodyLanguageResponsibilityClearDoctorsTestsAssumingResponseTreatmentPhysiciansPreciseWitchcraftJargon Author:Ann Richards
“I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.” ThinkingWayKindKidsAudiencePureIntellectualExpectationsResponseWay Forward Author:Johnny Depp
“I think social media really is a great tool. It fascinates me when I tweet something and right away you get a response almost immediately.” ThinkingSocialMediaToolsResponseSocial MediaTweet Author:Mario Andretti
“Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.” IfsGivingWould BeThreeForcePositionTrumpDeserveResponseImmigrationRacistThree WordsOutlandish Author:Bill Richardson
“We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.” ProblemStrongMiddleStrongerResponseHumanitarianEastMiddle East Author:Tony Abbott
“Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.” NumbersAcceptingGrowingIncreaseCrisisResponseInternationalAustraliaSyriaRefugeeSeekersAsylumsAsylum Seekers Author:Tony Abbott
“What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.” PeopleWorldWantWarLastsFocusGroupsParticularStressCrisisResponseRewardsDeterminedMinoritiesCampsSyriaTornPersecutedSmuggling Author:Tony Abbott
“We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.” NeedsWellsStrongCan DoSecurityResponseHumanitarian Author:Tony Abbott
“At first, my love was just to be in the studio and make the music and enjoy it when I hear it played back, but then the biggest thing for me was to see the response of the people. When you go out and see the energy in the crowd, it's incredible.” PeopleFirstsEnergyEnjoyResponseIncrediblesCrowdsStudios Author:Curtis Jackson
“I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.” PeopleTryingMayRealUseBigsHappensCommonNovelEventsResponseReal LifeSettingSettingsRealisticMelodramaBig Events Author:Nicholas Sparks
“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.” YearsLongDifferentWould BeTogetherFeltLosesChanceFiveExampleResponsePursueComicEnjoyedFive YearsRejectedUnemployedGood ChanceHobbesComic StripsLong Road Author:Bill Watterson
“On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.” KindMeanEndsHomeLossLevelsSituationSecurityEvolutionCrisisStructureResponsePossessionLoved OnesDeath Of A Loved OneThreateningBreaking DownBreakdownClose Relationship Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.” ProcessSituationEvolutionCrisisResponseSpeciesAwakeningEnormousAcceleration Author:Eckhart Tolle
“As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.” AbleMovingPoliticalEffortViolenceGrewConsequenceResponseMatureProjectionEquilibriumPragmatic Author:Wole Soyinka
“When I was a kid, I did want to be a boy. I didn't like to play with dolls, and most of my friends were kind of sensitive, sissy boys. But as I got older, the mystique of being a girl began to interest me. It was confusing what sexuality was, and the responses of other people, but it didn't make me feel terrified or vulnerable.” PeopleWantFeelsKindPlayKidsGirlInterestBoysMy FriendsResponseSexualityVulnerableSensitiveTerrifiedConfusingDollsMystiqueSissyBeing A Girl Author:Mary Gaitskill
“Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head?” PeopleThinkingHumansDifferentHumorMightActionFunnyCoursesNextStepsPlanetsResponseSpeciesReasonableCrapIndicationLiving OnScrewed UpHappy People Author:Marc Maron
“I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.” ThinkingWorldSelfMomentsTalkingSubjectsExpressionDependsResponseAll TimeSelf ExpressionOutside World Author:George Carlin
“I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.” IfsFoundSituationDistanceResponseBarsBest ThingsThings To DoAggressive Author:Chuck Liddell
“Gluten free pizza elicits the same response at a hollywood party that a pile of cocaine did in the 80's.” HumorFunnyPartyHollywoodResponsePizzaCocaineGlutenGluten Free Author:Natasha Leggero
“I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.” BelieveI BelieveBrainSupportModernResponseFree WillStimulusModern Science Author:Mario Bunge
“Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future.” SelfPlayEarthTeamFindingsResponseProtectionRapidsPerilImmuneImmune SystemGrassrootsSelf Protection Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.” ThinkingKindBlackCommunityViolencePoliceResponseCampaignsTrialsSensibilityBlack CommunityPolice ViolenceOj Simpson Author:Angela Davis
“A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.” WayGrowsResponseCritical Author:Michael Longley
“With the high stress of life many people find that their mind is constantly racing. They cannot stop from thinking even during time away from work or school, when they'd like to be relaxing. Subsequently, they may also feel associated physical tension in their bodies. In this case, the mind and the body are very closely connected to the stress response.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindMayBodySchoolCasesStressResponseConnectedTensionRacingTime Away Author:Tim McCarthy
“The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.” ThinkingWellsEyeLiteratureResultsResponseSpeedInternalsSlow DownClosingMeditatingSlowingPhysiological Author:Tim McCarthy