Definition of Response

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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

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

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

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
Milton Friedman

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Marianne Williamson

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

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

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

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Jim Elliot

Response Translations

response in German is Antwort {f}, Antwort {f}, Reaktion {f}
response in Swedish is gensvar

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