Responding Quotes - Page 12

• Life isn't happening to you; life is responding to you.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life Is, Happenings

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.

  John Irving

  Disappointment, Successful, People

  John Irving (2016). “Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.248, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Situation, Critical

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• I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.

  Jon Jones

  Football, Mean, Hockey

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• Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It:
  Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child;
  Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth.
  Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it.
  Fosters empathy and wonder.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Emotional, Thinking

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• When we're putting out records that people are responding to, it's amazing. And it's obviously what we shoot for every time. It's a tricky balancing act. But as long as it's sort of a righteous idea, then you're good to go.

  El-P

  Ideas, Long, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm giddy. I am like an 8-year-old child, every day. I feel blessed for the opportunities. I feel blessed that people are responding to the work, and I'm landing myself in things that people far more talented than I am are allowing me to work on.

  Frank Grillo

  Children, Blessed, Opportunity

  Source: collider.com

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• Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

  Corita Kent

  Art, Thinking, Doe

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

  David Shore

  Real, Heart, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

  Margaret Mead

  Human Nature, Humans, Conditions

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

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• We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Judging, Aspect, Instant

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• When you're feeling joyful, you are giving joy, and you'll receive back joyful experiences, joyful situations, and joyful people, wherever you go. From the smallest experience of your favorite song playing on the radio to bigger experiences of receiving a pay raise -- all of the circumstances you experiences are the law of attraction responding to your feeling of joy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Song, Law Of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

  John Katzman

  People, Marketing, Collaboration

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• I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.

  Stephen Daldry

  Thinking, Theatre, Directors

  "Director Stephen Daldry Talks EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE and THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY Miniseries". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to love and care for our neighbors as ourselves. Imagine what good we can do in the world if we all join together, united as followers of Christ, anxiously and busily responding to the needs of others and serving those around us — our families, our friends, our neighbors, our fellow citizens.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Simple, Profound, Together

  "Be Anxiously Engaged" by M. Russell Ballard, www.lds.org. October 2012.

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• Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.

  Marketa Irglova

  Beautiful, Butterfly, People

  "Q&A: Marketa Irglova shines with new music" by Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.washingtonexaminer.com. June 08, 2012.

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• One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.

  Thomas Lickona

  Character, World, Patterns

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• Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

  Alec Wilkinson

  Often Can, Intuition, Chance

  Alec Wilkinson (2012). “The Ice Balloon”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and comfort in my soul. The angels do this not by bringing me answers and intricate theories, but by bringing me creative ways of responding to life with light in my heart.

  Terry Taylor

  Inspiring, Angel, Heart

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• It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Rooms, Pancakes

  "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT 2 (and 3), WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2015.

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• The Retrofire rockets seem to be responding well

  Gherman Titov

  Rockets, Wells, Seems

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• Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Food, Safety, Responsible

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• I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Writing, Thinking, Creating

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• There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell it and get rid of it. And the next day suddenly the skies open up and the sound is glorious again. So it's like a relationship: There are good days and bad days.

  Joshua Bell

  Good Day, Bad Day, Sky

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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• Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving human beings. Like Moses responding to the travail of his brothers (Ex. 2:11), a caring halachic Jewish community should respond seriously to the heartfelt appeal of our contemporary sisters.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Brother, Integrity, Heart

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