Quotes About Response

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more.

I think the thing is there's a work for every space, you always have to respond to a context, whether it be a physical context, or a political one, or a cultural one, whatever.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

You can't control some things in football, but you can control how we view things and how we work.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

I will never apologize for changing the approach or strategy when the facts change.