#pond

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#intelligently #respond #treatment #unintelligent

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asylum #busy #clothing #confinement #does

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws. ↗

— Henry Knox

#correspondent #force #government #imagined #laws

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#around #audience #conscious #dance #doing

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking. ↗

— David Bowie

#i #negative #never #responded #thinking

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#hand #i #insults #respond #well

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#himself #his #must #painter #paintings

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#compositional #does #each #encountered #everything

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#people #presidents #respond #selected #top

Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#because #big #customers #doing #globe