#react

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#audiences #country #father #felt #found

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#events #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #force #heroic

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#desire #express #himself #his #lives

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #evolution #example #fact #fault

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ↗

— John Major

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared. ↗

— Jena Malone

#actor #being #being scared #child #child actor

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#allergic #car #context #disney #falls

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#action #always #best #better #get

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#comfortable #first #general #habits #know

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#age #along #artist #go #must