Quotes with response

  • Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
  • The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called conditioning. In operant conditioning we strengthen an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
  • There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
  • People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.
  • People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.
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  • Maya Angelou A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Paul Goodman A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Boy George A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey Accountability breeds response-ability.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Caroline Knapp Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Agnes Martin Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • John Dewey Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Anne Grant Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Audre Lorde Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 130
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Alexander Mackenzie I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Bryan Cogman I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Anne Campbell I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Bellamy Young I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Burn Gorman I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • June Jordan If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Henry Miller It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ayn Rand Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Nikki Giovanni Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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