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“Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.”

Art Problem Past Culture Remains Response Sequence Precedent

Author:Andre Malraux

“Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it - Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.”

Art Made Earth Left Dark Struggle Materials Response Chaos Ancient Characteristics Relief Works Of Art Scar Worn Reminders Revealing Statues Thrust Determinism Underworld Bronze Mutilation

Author:Andre Malraux

“I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil. So violent in their hostility to me and my work. OK, wait, wait, wait. That's a lie. I do read the responses--and get mesmerized, like cobra hypnosis. But I laugh (mostly) at the trolls, and think about what tiny little weenies they must have. (They seem to be mostly men.) And then ALL these smart, funny people leap to my defense, which is medicine, and fills me with love and thankfulness.”

“It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.”

Political Europe Argument Intelligent Response Sensible Ridicule Parody Political Leadership

Author:Tony Blair

“This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.”

World Negative Response Reactions

Author:Billy Corgan

“[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: "Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 [and] 1/16 is born." Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 [and] 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.”

Ifs Men World Should Believe Long Stills Moments Would Be Dies Next I Believe Born Lines Sin Vision Figures Birth Response Rate Population Excess Accurate Tennyson

Author:Charles Babbage

“Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.”

“The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.”

Ifs Thinking May Play Remember Fun Term Approach Standards Theater Surprise Response Block Innocence Liberating Halfway Childlike Avant Garde Wheeling

Author:Edward Albee

“I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.”

Littles Art Response Critical Works Of Art

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.”

Should Firsts Battle Weapons Structure Response Data Primaries Programmers Never Ending Data Structures

Author:Fred Brooks

“where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.”

Made Different Values Path Expression Morality Understood Response Socialism Economist Equations Pursued Different Paths Hayek

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.”

Difficult Wealth Response Scales Accustomed Adopted Expenditures

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…

“Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.”

Thinking Feels Years Feelings Process Brain Millions Magic Evolution Flow Response Species Currents Aids Psychological Chemicals Electrical Procreation

Author:Alan Lightman

“If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.”

Ifs Asks Answers Rights Response Honestly Constitutional Rights Porcelain

Author:Robert X. Cringely

“The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.”

States Fighting Emotional Opposites Stress Response Flight Relaxation Emotional Response

Author:Herbert Benson

“Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.”

World Pain Promise Response Greed Division Our World Idols Exploitation Weary Tedium False Promises

Book:The Garden of God

Source: The Garden of God

“That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.”

Said Response Reactions Free Will Robots Groove

Book:Tiger! Tiger!

Source: Tiger! Tiger!

“No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.”

“[In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Levels Violence Response Underestimated Insurgency

Author:Dick Cheney

“Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.”

States United United States Response Defeat Russia Socialism Soviet Menace

Author:Frank Chodorov

“Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.”

People Writing Wells Self Shows Values Stuff Sides Opinion Figures Balance Response Critical Dislike Facility

Author:Alex Garland

“Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.”

“It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.”

Hard Hard Work Response

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.”

People Problem Happens Lines Ability Love Is Response Bottom Idiot Bottom Line

Author:Marianne Williamson

“When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.”

Culture Black Comedy Media Behavior Intellectual Response Satire Architect Mainstream Invasion Mainstream Media Black Comedy

Author:John Cusack

“There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.”

Way Two Problem Response Two Ways

Book:The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

Source: The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

“The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!”

Believe States Order Given Nations Constitution Army Court Response Refuse Chiefs Executives Unlawful Chief Executives

Author:Alan Keyes

“Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.”

People Long Has Beens Support Successful Policy Movement Response Decades Campaigns Propaganda Reducing Disdain

Book:The Conscience of a Liberal

Source: The Conscience of a Liberal

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”

Thinking Inspirational Facts Reality Challenges Inspiring Mistake Learning Errors Response Obstacles African American Encouraging Facts Of Life Great Mistakes

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?”

Fans Response Queens Concerts Viewers Mercury Forums Interviewers

Author:Freddie Mercury

“Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.”

Trying States Remember United Company United States Response Western British Oil Iran Continuation Oil Companies Appeasement

Author:Leonard Peikoff

“My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.”

Half Share Land Color Skins Response Jew Skin Color

Author:Natalie Portman

“I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.”

Thinking Want Ideas Form Results Support Achieve Design Color Discipline Opposites Response Predetermined Hesitant

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.”

Doe Matter Action Used Mistake Accepting Consequence Response Insane Reasoning Appropriate Making Mistakes Rejects Feedback Selective

Author:Erik Naggum

“I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.”

Source: Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel

“We are flattered to witness the response generated by the beta program and are working towards accommodating all pending sign up requests as soon as we launch live.”

Program Response Witness Flattered

Author:Bhavin Turakhia

“Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.”

World Firsts Art Understanding Modern Art Is Sight Response Contemporary Instant Modernism Modern Art

Author:Nicholas Serota

“This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that God will come among the people. The silence deepens as we feel ourselves drawn beautifully to God and each other. Our hearts and souls burst with thanksgiving-a thanksgiving best expressed by silence. Silence growing from awe is the natural human response to hints of the Divine.”

People Feels Humans Heart Soul Natural Silence Growing Divine Worship Spring Expectations Silent Response Absence Gods Will Noise Awe Hints Heart And Soul Quaker

Author:J. Brent Bill

“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.”

Lying Artist Power Emotional Painting Intellectual Conscious Response Association Subconscious Emotional Response

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.”

Ideas Inspiration Action Purpose Environment Painting Response Interpretation

Author:Gerald Brommer

“Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?”

Knows Made Ideas Feelings Artist Felt Study Subjects Painting Personality Messages Response Sensitivity

Author:Gerald Brommer

“In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.”

Response Endure Panic Thrill Tested Descent Skydiving

Author:Dean Keith Simonton

“Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.”

People Giving Certain Social Type Amount Circumstances Cost Protect Giving Up Response Folly Regulation Sane

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.”

Thinking World Kind States Seems Terrible Response Caught Lifestyle Denial Flames

Author:Kim Stanley Robinson

“Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and that is so by any application of common sense. The poetry and myths are the response of a prehistoric people to the Universe around them made on the basis of Quality. It is Quality, not dialectic, which is the generator of everything we know.”

“Objects obey quantum laws- they spread in possibility following the equation discovered by Erwin Schodinger- but the equation is not codified within the objects. Likewise, appropriate non-linear equations govern the dynamical response of bodies that have gone through the conditioning of quantum memory, although this memory is not recorded in them. Whereas classical memory is recorded in objects like a tape, quantum memory is truly the analog of what the ancients call Akashic memory, memory written in Akasha, Emptiness- nowhere.”

Body Law Memories Gone Written Possibility Objects Unity Response Following Spread Emptiness Appropriate Tape Quantum Equations Conditioning Linear Analog Linear Equations

Author:Amit Goswami

“The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, "Does God exist?" It's irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other's explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses.”

Humans Doe Reason Powerful Source Scientist Unity Response Believer Explanation No Reason Rejoice Irrelevant Very Powerful Materialistic Transcendent Mistrust God Exists Numinous

Author:Norman Cota

“What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.”

Asks Teaching Essence Response Core Questioning Inquiry

Author:John Dewey

“We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.”

“The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.”

Two Facts Bigs Sides Answers Issues Depends Response Range Two Sides Right Answers Big Questions

Author:Linus Torvalds