Responding Quotes

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

How someone is responding to you may have nothing to do with you.

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding.

So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.

All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

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.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.

People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.

Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

Worship is just responding to the greatness of God.

How do I ask my shrink to stop responding to everything I say with, Too much information! and then giggling behind a pillow?

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.

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.

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

It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even if it leads to electoral downfall.

I'm responding to the will of the people.

Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

The laws of the Universe are responding to me.

You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.

A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden, you know whether it is loved or not.

I'm not going to be responding to [Donald Trump].

So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'

The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.

Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

In this there are no options, just response, awareness responding to knowing. All the way in and all the way out. This isn’t of the earth - this is of the everything.