Response
The act of responding.
An answer or reply.
Reply to an objection in formal disputation.
The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service.
A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office.
A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.
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Response Quotations
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
Henry Miller
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
Milton Friedman
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
Charles Barkley
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Robert Kennedy
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
Deepak Chopra
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins
Response Translations
response in German is Antwort {f}, Antwort {f}, Reaktion {f}
response in Swedish is gensvar
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