New Situations Quotes - Page 2

• The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Leadership, Past, Tasks

  Malcolm Fraser, Denis M. White, David Alistair Kemp (1986). “Malcolm Fraser on Australia”

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• We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Teamwork, Progress And Change, Creating

  "Merrill’s Marauders" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

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• I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

  Drew Gooden

  Team, Guy, Roles

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• ..Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Anxiety, Feelings

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• Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Believe, Writing

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• It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Labyrinth, Exit

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Movement in Art", p. 14, 1985.

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• Ever since our country came into existence, we have always assumed that we are better than the Arabs. But we are noticing that these are no longer backward people. Suddenly we are confronted with a new situation - the fact that the Arab world maybe thinks just as democratically as we do, perhaps even more democratically. Where does this leave us? After all, we're supposed to be the only democracy in the Middle East!

  Tom Segev

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

  Peter Bondra

  Player, Ice, Games

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• Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as an internally coherent tradition, and to express its vision in a way that responded to the needs of the new situation.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Integrity, Civilization, Challenges

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• But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Disappointment

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• Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

  Keith Henson

  Family, Giving Up, Home

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• In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

  Rainbow Rowell

  Google, Situation, Bother

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.308, St. Martin's Griffin

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• To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.

  Barbara Deming

  Peace, Nice, Doe

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• Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses

  Susan Cain

  Children, Mistake, Kids

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• A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Knowing, Courageous

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Children, Clever, Teenager

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.38, Vintage

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• We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and that’s great. Everybody loves life in its mundane, daily aspects. It’s what makes us feel secure. But I also start to go numb a little bit and I don’t see what’s around me. So I put myself in a new situation and suddenly I’m really seeing the person next to me, hearing music, and I’m smelling, and I can’t help but want to write it down.

  Dorianne Laux

  Morning, Coffee, Writing

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• If you don't have finances to jump on opportunites or at least room to support yourself while you're tryin to move into new situations then you can't even evolve.

  Curtis Jackson

  Moving, Support, Rooms

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• When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.

  Karl Popper

  Past, Reality, Situations In Life

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• War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

  C. S. Lewis

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

  Winston Churchill

  Pain, Giving, Optimism

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• At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Yield, Difficult Situations

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation.

  David Bronstein

  Mistake, Thinking, Annoyed

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• It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal

  William Bridges

  Change, Team, People

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• The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Past, Mirrors, Views

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