#response

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #behavior #concern #conscious #himself

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#cleaning #exhaustion #frustration #i #laugh

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been. ↗

— Alice Walker

#after #attack #attacked #been #distressed

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#comes #cycle #destroying #employ #end

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anger #best #bringing #choose #conditions

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#childhood #provokes #reach #responses #right

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#direct #film #find #i #i think

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. ↗

— April Greiman

#emotional #evoke #importantly #more #must

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments. ↗

— William Hague

#believe #change #climate #climate change #commitments

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#country #criticized #development #economic #economic development