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“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”

“My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.”

Knows Humans Made Bigs Sex Deals Too Much Human Nature Response Significance Frank Big Deal

Author:John Travolta

“It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!”

Humans Seems Animal Clear Dog Messages Slavery Response Loud Animal Rights Attacking Wildlife Captivity

Author:Adela Popescu

“I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.”

People Life Sometimes Moments Stories Pain Life Is Perfect Worst Laughter Response Judgement Judged Harsh Uncles Grandparent Aunt Hypocrite Showing Up Hanging On

Author:William J. Clinton

“The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.”

Strategy Response Rely Unlimited Rely Upon

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.”

“To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.”

Humans Taste Response Oneself Faculty

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.”

Ifs Humans Wells Doe Ends Action Actors Impossible Response Stimulus Human Actions

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar?s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.”

Men Heart Children Might Action Compassion Boys Messages Response Enthusiastic Prompts

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.”

Art Modern Art Is Response Sensitive Abstract Rebellious Modern Life Unconventional Abstract Art Individualistic

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.”

Ifs Would Be Asks Felt Painting Response Paint Painter

Author:Robert Motherwell

“These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.”

Humans Made Whole Character Individual Given Human Nature Expression Habit Response Various Phases Sequence Stimulus Habitual Single Life Modification

Book:BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…

Source: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…

“Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.”

World Friendship Company Fit Travel Expectations Response Curiosity Temper Traveling Alone Company We Keep

Author:Alain de Botton

“We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.”

Believe Mean Might Fear Brain Situation Response Uncomfortable Uncomfortable Situations

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.”

Silence Response Envy Arise Contradiction Silence Is Vulgarity Impertinence

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.”

Men Mind Action Universe Machines Response Determine Organs Our Actions Stimulus

Book:My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography

Source: My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography

“The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.”

Knows Men Circumstances Mark Response

Author:Kelsey Grammer

“In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?”

Knows Response Finished Do You Know Making Love Pollock

Author:Jackson Pollock

“I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.”

Certain Goal Lines Walks Acting Response Accomplish Testifying

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“I really don't care about the response to my hair this is just how my hair is. I don't take care of it, or comb it, or put anything in it, or style it or anything. When people comment on it, it is funny to me that it draws such attention. It makes me realize how insignificant that sort of thing is.”

People Care Realizing Attention Style Hair Draws Response Don't Care Take Care Comment Insignificant Combs

Author:Steve Nash

“Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.”

“You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.”

Different Eye Moving Courses Opportunity Situation Imagine Events Ready Circumstances Crisis Response Defined Anticipate Different Directions

Author:David Stern

“Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.”

Mind Audience Economy Subjects Blessing Economics Ears Response Ill Boredom Topics Cliche

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.”

Process Growth Technology Benefits Response Customers Aggression Curves Steep Procurement Positive Response

Author:Charles R. Jackson

“This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.”

Concern Impact Response Starting Sensible Minimum Wages Employers Minimum Wage Competitiveness

Author:Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

“FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.”

“If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.”

Ifs World Want Long Waiting Long Time Patience Response Patient Idle Be Patient

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.”

World Artist Enjoy Term My Own Hell Response Studios I Realized Renewal Being An Artist Reinventing

Author:Cornelia Parker

“As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.”

Moments Seems Power Progress Conditions Response Tyranny Adversaries Usage Optimum

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.”

Space Conditions Position Color Shapes Response

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.”

Ifs May Feelings Artist Views Sky Shapes Mountain Experience Response Paint Finished Canvas Soar Evoke

Author:Lawren Harris

“Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response.”

Eye Understanding Seeing Doors Essentials Findings Capacity Universal Response Instruction Inner Life

Author:Lawren Harris

“Cathleen Falsani: What is sin? Barack Obama: Being out of alignment with my values.”

Values Sin Christianity Response Islam Alignment

Author:Barack Obama

“It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.”

Ifs Humans Approach Fundamentals Response Human Life

Book:Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, second series

Source: Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, second series

“In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.”

Thinking Has Beens Made Individual Easier Response Made It

Book:Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

Source: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

“No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.”

Persons Matter Self Esteem No Matter What Response Self Confidence Esteem Worthwhile Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem

Book:Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace

Source: Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace

“We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection.”

Self Reflection Concepts Response Nothingness Self Reflection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.”

Women Response Rude

Author:Judith Martin

“Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mean Has Beens Different Action Chance Intelligent Response Observation Suggestions Emancipation Inference Fatality

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

“I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.”

Trying Nice Response Comment Sections Very Positive

Author:Candice Patton

“If you're going to be in a series and it has commercial breaks... People say, "Oh, there's a difference between cable and network," and my response to that is, "No, there's a difference between sponsored and not sponsored." That's the thing.”

People Ifs Differences Break Series Response Cables

Author:Scott Glenn

“I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless."”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Looks Problem Might Natural Steps Planets Bird Response Disappear Scales Eras Hopeless Meaningless Natural World Oh Well

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.”

Made Change Decision Color Demand Response

Author:Wolf Kahn

“People become discouraged when they listen to their 'inner critic'... Whatever that voice is saying, articulate a response, drawing from the part of you that feels strong and confident. Be your own cheerleader.”

People Feels Strong Voice Courage Response Critics Drawing Discouraged Cheerleader

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.”

Self Enough Action Belief Ability Doubt Childhood Type Response Core Our Family Good Enough Rooted Subconscious Symptoms Not Good Enough Self-doubt Limiting Beliefs Core Beliefs

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind inside your Heart, by trusting the inner guru and by recognizing each moment as perfect in itself and by simply being your Self. This is the true and natural responsibility or rather 'response-ability', the ability to respond effortlessly to the needs of the moment.”

Way Needs Mind Heart Self Moments Opportunity Natural Ability Perfect Responsibility Unique Response Contact Recognizing Guru Satsang

Author:Mooji

“Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.”

Hate Universe Creative Personality Structure Response

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there. In particular, you should spend no time at all thinking about those rosy scenarios in which the market goes your way, since in those situations, there's nothing more for you to do. Focus instead on those things you want least to happen and on what your response will be.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Should Happens Situation Focus Particular Response Scenarios Rosy

Author:William Eckhardt

“The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.”

World Art Art Is Response Works Of Art Great Work

Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith Reader

“IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas.”

Art Reason Body Audience Saws Influence Emotional Fit Died Dancing Response Mood Eras Combination Gas Tunes Poetry Is Links Meant To Be Aesthetic Weeping Plunge Trance Outburst Persia

Author:Hakim