Situation Quotes - Page 30

• Being injured is quite an awkward situation to be in mentally. Physically, it's quite good to have a bit of a rest, but mentally it's hell.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Awkward, Hell, Injured

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I'm not one of those guys that sits and studies all the stages to see what's gonna be my sort of thing. I sort of play in the moment. Everything is split-second decisions, and I try and make the best out of every possible situation.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Play, Guy, Decision

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You've got to be able to take a hit and learn from it and get back up on your bike again, or get back doing whatever you do, and try even harder next time. It's all about learning from your mistakes and using it the next time so you don't put yourself in the same situation.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Mistake, Trying, Able

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You have to be patient. Litigants are emotionally involved - they're suing or being sued, or they've been in an accident or they're charged (with a crime). They are not very objective about their situation.

  Steven Pacey

  Suing, Patient, Crime

  Source: www.paxtonrecord.net

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• In my world, everything has the potential to be funny. Joyful things, painful things... It's all about how you view it and if you're able to take an objective stance on the situation.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Views, World, Able

  "Interview with Jinkx Monsoon: Host for the 7th Annual Academy Awards Party at Seattle Cinerama". Interview with Brian Peterson, seattlegayscene.com. February 22, 2012.

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• The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, Party, Independent

  "Eight questions for Wendy Kopp". "Democracy in America", www.economist.com. April 3, 2010.

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• I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• We've found that the biggest thing as far as the danger is simply pressure.When we work with explosives, we've got bomb technicians there, bomb-squad guys who go into unknown situations all the time, and they've dealt with it safely.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Squad, Guy, Bombs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Talking, Training, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you're allowed to, that's no good either. There's no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky.

  Woody Allen

  Way, Lucky, Losing

  "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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• A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.

  Brian Eno

  Airports, Play, People

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Thinking, Games, Challenges

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• Many people think there's nothing they can do to change their karma - it's preordained so why bother trying to change their situation? This is what scares people. These folks think that to accept the reality of karma one must be passive. It simply isn't true. Karma is active. We can - in the blink of an eye - make decisions that will shape our futures and transform the parts of our lives that are causing us unhappiness.

  Mary T Browne

  Karma, Eye, Reality

  Mary T. Browne (2013). “The Power of Karma: How to Understand Your Past and Shape Your Future”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Karma, Pain, Past

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• But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

  William L. Shirer

  History, Drunk, Imagination

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• Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Technology, Men

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• Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

  Denis Healey

  Thinking, Distribution Of Power, Example

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• Theoretically, the human is supposed to be the smart one. Well, if we are, then we need to be able to adjust to fit the situation rather than just think "Well this is how you work with horses. I've done this on 500 just like you."

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Smart, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

  Tom Ford

  Past, Ideas, Losing Someone

  "Director Tom Ford Interview A SINGLE MAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2009.

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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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• we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not dressed up in its birthday costume. It is what it is. It regards its national interests as important enough to fight for. And the difference on the whole Ukraine situation is that the Russians are prepared to fight for their position on Ukraine, and the West is not.

  Marvin Kalb

  Fighting, Russia, Ukraine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

  Peter King

  Islamic, Years, America

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• I have never been in a situation thankfully where I haven't gotten along with my girlfriend's parents. I've been very lucky to have girlfriends that have had such amazing families that have brought me in.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Girlfriend, Parent, Lucky

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?

  Susan Orlean

  Inspiration, Simple, People

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Liva chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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