Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable.

- April Gornik

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

- Bruce Lipton

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

- Brian Eno

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

- Bono

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

- Bob Woodward

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.

- Bill Sienkiewicz

Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

- B. F. Skinner

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

- Arvid Carlsson

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

- Anthony Caro

You can't make people respond.

- Arthur Boyd

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

- Anna Wintour

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

- Aleksey Igudesman

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

- Anna Sui

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

- Anita Sarkeesian

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

- Andy Summers

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

- Andrew Scott

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

- Allyson Schwartz

I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond.

- Afrojack

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

- Ann Leckie

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

- Anna Wintour