Situation Quotes - Page 31

• I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it allows me to have a better mental attitude towards baseball.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, Attitude, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Peaceful, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Years, Independence, Taiwan

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

  Mitch McConnell

  Government, Effort, Trying

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.

  Nicholson Baker

  Reading, Reality, Thinking

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Thinking, Matter, Way

  Source: content.time.com

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• I've never been in a love triangle. I would not want to be in that situation.

  Taylor Lautner

  Triangles, Want, Love Triangle

  "Taylor Lautner Video Interview THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE; Also Talks BREAKING DAWN, ABDUCTION, and STRETCH ARMSTRONG". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2010.

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• If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

  Dean Smith

  Life, Motivational, Stress

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• A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Educational, Skills

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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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• Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Opportunity, Support You, Things In Life

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• There is a good side to every situation.

  David J. Schwartz

  Bad Day, Optimism, Sides

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• Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.

  David J. Schwartz

  Optimistic, Remember You, Remembers You

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.211, Penguin

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• Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are.

  Tom Watson

  Wrestling, Winning, Pay

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• 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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• Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.

  David Lodge

  Communication, Creativity, Degrees

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• I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

  Robert Altman

  Trying, Want, Actors

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• Settle your quarrels, come together,
  understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is
  already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that
  generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to
  act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in
  revolution.

  George Jackson

  Love, Failure, Reality

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, p.25, Chicago Review Press

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• Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.

  James Redfield

  Prayer, Moving, Thinking

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• As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Ideas, Empathy

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.11, Imprint Academic

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• Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

  John Mayer

  Heart, Half, Take Time

  Song: Half of My Heart, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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• I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

  Jayson Blair

  Making Amends, Amends, Seeking

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• Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand

  John Moody

  Agency, Law, Evil

  John Moody, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jefferys (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.

  John Sexton

  Passion, Black And White, Artist

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• The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

  Martha Beck

  Emotional, Thinking, Frustration

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