“Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.” CareResponseConsumersEmployeeOperatorsReally Deep Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“You win an Oscar, and immediately people ask how you feel. So you don't have time to actually feel anything because you have to generate a response. And then some of the feelings you have are so intimate and visceral, words don't really do them justice.” PeopleFeelsFeelingsAsksWinningJusticeResponseIntimateOscarsHow You FeelVisceral Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“When people do bad things intentionally, they know they've done them. But it's not to be cared about. That's the problem with the tabloid press; they dramatize these things until there's a state of frenzy. People see frenzy and they go, "What?" Then they clamor toward the frenzy. We all do it. It's a primal, natural response.” PeopleKnowsStatesDoneProblemNaturalPressesResponseBad ThingsPrimalTabloidsFrenzyClamor Author:Julia Roberts
“I don't think that I have been treated kindly or fairly by a certain portion of the gay community. Most of the rest don't know what to make of me. On the occasions that I have had the opportunity to present myself to the community, I have gotten a positive response.” ThinkingKnowsHas BeensCertainOpportunityCommunityGayResponseTreatedOccasionsPortionsGay CommunityPositive Response Author:Jeff Gannon
“If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can spread. One violent act can elicit a response. It can spread to people in a peer group so that they feel that they have to respond. It can pass generation to generation almost like a genetic disease.” PeopleIfsFeelsSexRiskGenerationsGroupsDiseaseBehaviorResponseSpreadViolentPeersPeer GroupViolent Acts Author:Steven James
“When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.” KnowsWayGivingMeanTwoRealResponseMoodTwo Friends Author:Plato
“NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon.” WarDoneStepsClearColdMoonUnionsResponseSovietCold WarSoviet UnionNasaExplorers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I think that honesty in presenting the gospel goes out the window when you want people to respond to the message, but you are prepared to accept any sort of response. Of course, the only true response is heartfelt repentance and faith. However, if you don't feel the need to be honest in your presentation, then you will calibrate your presentation of the gospel to whatever gets the response you want.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsCoursesAcceptingHonestHonestyMessagesWindowPreparedResponseBeing HonestRepentancePresentationPresentingHeartfelt Author:Mark Dever
“I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get four new people baptized each week. When asked, "What happens if they can't meet the quota?", his response was, "Then I'll find two students who can". This man wasn't even remotely interested in true gospel preaching. He was results-driven.” PeopleIfsMenTwoHappensChurchResultsResponsibilityFourHeardWeekStudentsResponseDrivenPreachingPastorEmployedBaptizedQuotaSeminary Author:Mark Dever
“The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history.” MenNeedsHas BeensRealityMightDealsEconomyConsciousConceptsEmptyResponseAncientStupidityRageAvoidanceAncient HistoryChanging Everything Author:Stephen Marche
“Organizations have to come to grips with the fact that tests of adaptive capability aren't always pleasant. Learning can be a powerful emotional event, and organizations have to be cognizant of that. They must understand that those who complete high-quality executive education programs are going to see the organization with fresh eyes after they return. Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.” IdeasFactsEyePowerfulQualityEventsEmotionalReturnProgramTestsOrganizationFilledResponseEnthusiasmPleasantExecutivesCapabilityNew IdeasWorkplaceHigh QualityAdaptiveChillySupervisorsCognizant Author:Warren G. Bennis
“Sanctions are a strong and agreed element of the West's response to Russia's aggression. It is puzzling to me that there is so much skepticism about the sanctions. I don't understand it.” StrongElementsWestResponseRussiaAggressionSkepticismSanctionsPuzzling Author:Daniel Fried
“The Russians are using the tools at their disposal to weaken Western solidarity, to create doubt, to support nationalist parties, just as the old Soviets supported leftist parties. We need a united Western response to this multi-pronged threat.” NeedsUnitedPartySupportDoubtToolsThreatResponseWesternSolidarityLeftists Author:Daniel Fried
“People of all kinds are waking up. Even people passionate for Obama realize even that knight on a white horse isn't enough to roll back the oligarchy. I'm seeing a lot of action on the left as well that is never reported. But the Tea Party response is the most visible and the initiative they show is the most recognizable.” PeopleWellsKindEnoughShowsActionLeftRealizingWhitePartySeeingHorseWake UpResponsePassionateAll KindsTeaVisibleWakingInitiativeKnightsTea PartyOligarchyWhite Horse Author:Naomi Wolf
“In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous states now have some type of mandatory sentencing for this offense - typically two days in jail for a first offense and two to ten days for a second offense. Possession of a tiny amount of crack cocaine, on the other hand, was given a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.” YearsFirstsTwoStatesHandsLawMotherGivenFiveGroupsTypeAmountTenPrisonResponsePossessionSentencesTinyDrivingDrunkFive YearsCracksJailMinimumOffenseAdoptedCocaineTwo DaysAdvocacyLike A MotherDrunk Driving Author:Michelle Alexander
“Drunk driving contains a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to drunk drivers has generally emphasized keeping the person functional and in society, while attempting to respond to the dangerous behavior through treatment and counseling.” PersonsUseGreaterRiskDangerousDrugBehaviorResponseDrivingViolentDrunkTreatmentIllegalDriversAttemptingCounselingIllegal DrugsViolent DeathDrunk Driving Author:Michelle Alexander
“To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.” FilmNumbersAudienceHonestOfficeResponseBoxesReactionsBox Office Author:Aamir Khan
“You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a complex mix of multiculturalism and financial power. Interestingly, that is a political mix of progressive and oppressive. What I'm arguing is simply that we should take responsibility for the effects of 'our place' around the world. To take responsibility for our embeddedness. If you don't want to, so be it. It does demand an imaginative engagement with our planetary interdependence and that can be quite challenging.” IfsWorldWantShouldDoeMomentsFactsPoliticalAsksChallengesResponsibilityEffectsDemandResponseComplexesFinancialLondonArguingAround The WorldProgressiveEngagementMulticulturalismTaking ResponsibilityImaginativeInterdependence Author:Doreen Massey
“Since his arrival, the new secretary of state has not held a single press conference. On his first big trip to Europe last month for the G20 summit, Rex Tillerson said less than 50 words in total in response to press questions.” FirstsSaidStatesBigsLastsMonthsEuropePressesResponseSecretaryConferencesSummitArrivalsPress Conferences Author:Rachel Maddow
“I faced a lot of criticism as president. I didn't like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.” PeoplePresidentRichCuttingTaxesBenefitsWeaponsMassLowsCriticismDestructionClaimsResponseIraqHearingAll TimeRacistSuggestionsLiedWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionKatrinaAll Time Low Author:George W. Bush
“I think Syriza and Podemos are very, very different from Sinn Féin in many ways, and so I wouldn't put all three together. I would say that Syriza and Podemos are movements which have come out of mass struggles. In the case of Podemos, directly out of tariqaliextremehuge mass movements in Spain, which started with the occupation of the square. In Greece, as a response to what the EU was doing there, punishing it endlessly, for the sins of its ruling elite.” ThinkingWayDifferentTogetherThreeSinCasesStruggleMovementMassResponseOccupationSquaresElitesSpainRulingGreece Author:Tariq Ali
“The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?" - was a matter of the pope jettisoning millennia of Catholic moral teaching. It was not. It was a specific response to the circumstances of a man who had repented and was trying to live an upright life.” MenTryingMatterMoralTeachingJudgingCircumstancesCatholicResponseEndureNarrativePhrasesPopeSignatures Author:George Weigel
“[Pope Francis] comes to that conviction [of family crisis] as a pastor, not as Brad Wilcox or Charles Murray. So he wants to challenge the Church to find pastoral responses to that crisis that meet real human needs.” WantNeedsHumansRealChallengesChurchCrisisResponseConvictionPopePastorHuman NeedsBradReal Human Author:George Weigel
“I think you could say every pastor is writing this book, Max on Life; for many it just never gets published. All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication.” ThinkingWritingYearsBookResponsePastorMaxPublicationThrough The Years Author:Max Lucado
“I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.” GivingWritingTogetherClassTeachingStudentsInspireResponsePrompts Author:Allison Joseph
“I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose shaped by it later in life. I still have deep, almost primal responses to the language of scripture, and I think that comes through in all my writing.” ThinkingWritingStillsHelpingReadingLanguageTaughtGrewGrew UpResponseScriptureProsePrimalLater In Life Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a no-surrender position. This is how we live. We live in a country in which we have these rights, and we're not going to give them up. Full stop. The end.” GivingEndsCountryNovelRightsViolencePositionResponseSurrenderVideoThreatenedCartoonYoutube Author:Salman Rushdie
“You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you have no way of knowing until the reader reads the book. Actually, the critical response doesn't worry me. I've had very few reviews that have upset me.” PeopleWayBookWorryKnowingReaderResponseCriticalUpsetReviews Author:Robert Cormier
“Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind of response you want, and I can't sacrifice it for the sake of somebody worried about censorship. You have to find a way to be truthful and honest.” KnowsWayWantKindI CanBookKidsKnow HowSacrificeHonestResponseSakeWorriedCensorshipTruthfulBeing Truthful Author:Robert Cormier
“The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian witness. It also set up evangelicals to be disappointed when the culture did not turn out the way many expected it to turn out. So our response ought to be that we are always, in every culture, strangers in exile.” WayChristianValuesTurnsCultureIssuesOughtAspectAgreeResponseStrangerExpectedWitnessAssumptionDisappointedExileDistinctiveMinimizing Author:Russell D. Moore
“Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.” PeopleFactsLife IsLiteratureSpacePersonalityHappeningsRelationResponsePsychologicalMaskObscureDiscounts Author:Karan Mahajan
“I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.” ThinkingWantTwoActionPainSufferingThreeSocialGrowsGrowthStrugglePathDrugEmpathyThirdsResponseAvailableRevengeRageEndlessAgentsPrimariesEmptinessNumbIntoxicationOverworkSocial ActionSpaciousnessBacksliding Author:C.E. Morgan
“In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.” WayLittlesArtProblemBitsSituationImagineFindingsLittle BitResponseMy WayPanicProblem Solving Author:Tom Burr
“I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.” ThinkingNeedsHas BeensToolsResponseFortunateMisfortunesResponding Author:Clarence Thomas
“When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental health trauma is different from somebody breaking into a store. Those are not the same things, and our response has to be different.” DifferentPoliceMental HealthResponseTrauma Author:Deray McKesson
“The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities, and ban the media from publishing any that are taken. The laws also make it a crime for animal advocates to seek employment at animal enterprises without disclosing their intentions. Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.” FightingInterestAnimalTakenCrimeNegativeIntentionResponseImpressionEnterprisePublishingTaking Pictures Author:Wayne Pacelle
“Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do in response to this attack 9/11. I'm sure he wanted America to attack Afghanistan. Once you do what your enemy wants, you are walking into a trap, whether you think it's the right thing to do or not.” ThinkingEnemyWalkingResponseRight ThingAfghanistanSophisticatedBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Robert Fisk
“When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot of people say we're a conservative country, that people are conservative. And my response to that is, yes, that's true, and you know what the people want to conserve most? The progressive traditions of our country - freedom of speech, and of the press and of assembly. Freedom to dissent. The freedom to practice your own religion or not practice religion as you see fit. Yes, we're conservative! We want to conserve those.” PeopleCountryFitTraditionResponseConservativeProgressiveFreedom Of SpeechDissent Author:Tom Harkin
“Perhaps one could appoint three or four professional people specially concerned with the task of bridge building between the majority and the minority. Bridge building of this kind requires an effort from both sides. It's no good if the majority alone do it. The question is whether there is any response, whether people on the other side of the river also wish to try to build a bridge.” PeopleTryingKindWishEffortBuildingConcernedResponse Author:Norbert Elias
“Obviously, there are political operatives that are playing a role. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be denounced. All candidates should say, we want to have - be able to have nonviolent, peaceful speaking events. Do not hurt people, do not hit. Do not break the law, no one is encouraging violence. That's what should be stated very clearly. Denounce any violence that occurs. Be honest to say exactly also, what is behind this. They are trying to elicit and produce a specific response to try to discredit and to paint Donald Trump in a particular light. That is - that's what's happening.” PeopleTryingMeanPoliticalHurtBreakViolenceHonestResponsePaintPeacefulBeing HonestDiscredit Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“The crazy thing is, I sent out 200 letters and I got one job interview, and I actually got that job, which was working as a development assistant at Joel Silver's company. I always say that to people when they ask "What do I do?" and I'm like, "Look, I didn't get ten responses, and I didn't get five interviews, but I got one interview, and I got the job," and that was all I needed.” PeopleCrazyResponseJob Interview Author:Suzanne Todd
“In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.” TechnologyResponseVulnerable Author:Sherry Turkle
“A certain month or a certain season can elicit a certain emotional response. That is certainly true for anyone who has a negative anniversary on their calendar, the approach of that month brings the feeling of being very much back in another room. It is a time that stands outside the rest of the year.” FeelingsEmotionalNegativeResponseStanding Out Author:Oz Perkins
“I think that can also be the downfall at the same time in what's really difficult about being kind of in the public eye, you have so much exposure through the Internet, and you can receive a lot of comments, and you get kind of immediate gratification, but also immediate response from people that can either be negative or positive. But I'm really thankful for the internet because it's allowed me to connect with people so much more easily.” PeopleThinkingKindEyeDifficultInternetNegativeResponseBe KindCommentGratificationDownfall Author:Amandla Stenberg
“With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at Melville House, who championed the project form the outset, told me she was surprised by the response. After this, editors began asking my opinion about which Latin American writers ought to be translated. I realized I had some cultural capital to spend, and I wanted to use it to introduce another author who might be considered a risk by conventional publishers. Michael Noll was at the top of my list.” HouseOpinionRiskResponseI RealizedLatinIntroducingLatin AmericaAmerican Writer Author:Adam Morris
“When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.” BelieveResponsePositivityGenderInequality Author:Lindy West
“I think there is nothing that can replace your emotional response. The biggest mistakes I have ever made in my life are when people told me, "You really should produce this. It's a guaranteed hit." I would read the material and I would go, "I don't get it, but okay, I'll produce it." You're giving up that much of your life, your time with family and friends, to something that you're not really committed to - and they did not pan out the way everyone said they would, even though I worked just as hard.” PeopleThinkingGivingMistakeEmotionalGiving UpOkayResponseCommittedFamily And FriendsBiggest Mistake Author:Gale Anne Hurd
“We have two choices when things pile up at work or we're surrounded by energy vampires who leave us feeling depleted. We can get frantic, hyperventilate, shut down, and become reactive. Needless to say, these responses to stress just make us more stressed. Surrendered people have the ability to pause, take a deep breath, and observe. Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes.” PeopleFeelingsChoicesEnergyAbilitySilenceBehaviorStressResponseVampireStressedDeep BreathTake A Deep Breath Author:Judith Orloff
“There is always the working out of things, and you have to have sort of a gut response to it. And an intellectual response. And an aesthetic response. All that comes from having done this for a long time. Instead of saying, "That's a really good rock track, and that will do," I'm looking for something that is more original and fresh. There are a lot of elements to get into it: a level or sophistication, passion and excitement.” LongDonePassionIntellectualResponseTrackWork OutExcitementGutsAestheticSophistication Author:Andy Summers
“The selection of topics for intensive research has often been a function of serendipitous opportunity. My forays into philosophy of education were largely in response to the prompting of friends and my dissatisfaction with much of what - at that time - passed for philosophy of education. I cannot honestly say that there has been either continuity or an overarching schema, though I suspect ,or at least hope, that someone who looked at my oeuvre might conclude that there was a philosophically integrated author.” PhilosophyOpportunityResponseHonestlyIntegratedDissatisfaction Author:John Kleinig