Responding Quotes - Page 5

• You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

  Andy Grove

  Team, Fire, Events

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• There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I usually regret responding, because usually all that happens is that the intimidator feels righteously vindicated.

  Tori Amos

  Regret, Snakes, Creative

  "Tori Amos Interview by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the loss but it lowers our whole energy level. I think that's a pervasive way we end up responding to loss or the anticipation of loss. Natural but not necessary.

  Tara Brach

  Pain, Distance, Loss

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• As a news person, you can't spend all your time responding to a Comedy Central star. It's not what we do.

  Megyn Kelly

  Stars, News, Comedy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.

  Anna Quindlen

  Party, Humility, Opportunity

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• Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Real, Eye, Black And White

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• I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the outside as a director might see it, but within yourself you become used to the idea of hearing your fellow actors, responding to them in space.

  Simon McBurney

  Ideas, Space, Theatre

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• A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and the same thing... It's in exactly the same way that all Brook's exercises try to train the actor. The actor is trained to become so organically related within himself, he thinks completely with his body. He becomes one sensitive, responding whole... The whole of him is one.

  John Heilpern

  Cat, Exercise, Thinking

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• Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.

  Jaron Lanier

  Media, Culture, Fandoms

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.20, Vintage

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• Living
  consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
  responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
  moment.

  Sidney Poitier

  Honesty, African American, Live In The Moment

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

  Adam Frank

  Artist, Scientist, Come Up

  Source: screenrant.com

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• People vary enormously in how they learn. Some learn through their eyes - by reading but also by responding to all kinds of visual information. Others learn mostly through their ears or touch or other senses.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Reading, Eye, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Past

  "No Longer Determined by Your Past". Interview, johnderuiter.com. July 1, 2014.

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• All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Imagination, Mind, Acting

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• It's really cool to see how many awesome, badass ladies are out there now just doing their thing and putting their foot down, saying, "Nope. You're not going to tell me I'm doing something women shouldn't be doing." It's a scary time but also I think a really important time. I'm happy to see how much girls are responding to a lot of the other powerful big boys swimming out there right now.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Girl, Powerful, Badass

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Events, Culture, May

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you anymore. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.

  Hugh Jackman

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• Jesus has prepared the way and has made following our destiny possible, whereas we are helpless by ourselves. We can find and fulfill our purpose by responding to the clear, simple call of Jesus Christ: "Follow Me." He is the doorway to fulfilling our destiny, where our divine design and God-ordained purpose live in perfect harmony.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Simple, Destiny

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• I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.

  Clarence Thomas

  Thinking, Needs, Tools

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Air, Hands

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• Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation...Our package not only responds to this challenge, but...is an opportunity that should create thousands of new businesses and millions of jobs in Europe.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Jobs, Opportunity, Our Generation

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Worship

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Children, Father, Reading

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• If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.

  Henry Blackaby

  Christian, Talking, Goal

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2001). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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