Quotes About Response

I feel life is not about what happens to you, but about your reactions to what has happened to you.

When I'm in the ring, I can hear the reactions and know the people are enjoying themselves.

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see someone writing about you, you have this massive emotional response to it. But after a while, it all just fades into the background noise.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

Readers often bring a different set of criteria to the work based on the format.

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

What we can control is our readiness.

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

I think a fighter should be ready and able to adapt to anything that is in front of him in the ring.

I feel any actor can deliver a dialogue but real acting is how one reacts to the dialogue.

When Miranda first started becoming popular, not many people knew who she was. People were confused by her. They thought she was a real person. I got a lot of interesting responses.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It's part of our grief process. If we don't know what else to do, we laugh. That's a very real thing.

In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

One of the biggest challenges we face today is finding managers who can sense and respond to rapid shifts, people who can process new information very quickly and make decisions in real time. It's a problem for the computer industry as a whole - and not just for Dell - that the industry's growth has outpaced its ability to create managers.

The way in which you accomplish your goals and help your customers needs to be very flexible depending upon how those customers are reacting in real time.

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.

There is nothing quite like working on a counter-terrorism case in real time.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.