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• In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

  John Piper

  Different, Circumstances, Thousand

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• The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

  Herbert Simon

  Memories, Intuition, Experts

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• Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.

  Herbert Simon

  Sick, Design, Intellectual

  "The Sciences of the Artificial". Book by Herbert A. Simon, p. 130, 1969.

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• Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.

  Herbert Simon

  People, Decision, Encounters

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• God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

  Bill Johnson

  Trying, Invasion, Expect Nothing

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.

  Scott Adams

  Stupid, Funny But True, Degrees

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• Be who you are in every situation.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Be Who You Are, Who You Are

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• I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Thinking, Trying

  Francis Bacon (1987). “Francis Bacon: Retrospektive”

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• No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.

  Henry Miller

  Hero, Gun, Voice

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• I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

  Jim Evans

  Games, Serious, Students

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• Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.

  Les Brown

  Strong, Worry, Energy

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• So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

  Thomas Lynch

  Effort, Language, Make Sense

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• Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

  Les Brown

  Mistake, Moving, Past

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• I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

  Michelle Williams

  Thinking, Projects, Turns

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Kids, Simple

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• I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Fighting, Hands

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• You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

  Allen Klein

  Attitude, May, Able

  "The Home Office Solution: How to Balance Your Professional and Personal Lives While Working at Home". Book by Alice Bredin, p. 33, 1998.

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• You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

  William Scranton

  Understanding, Needs, Judgment

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• Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Umpires, Two

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• You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

  Joe Walsh

  Live Your Life, Events, Looks

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• Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

  Tim O'Brien

  Essentials, Storytelling, Harder

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• I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.

  John Carpenter

  Hands, Superhero, Gone

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• When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Sick, Want, Helping

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• During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Games, Two

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• Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

  Jim Evans

  Reading, Games, Details

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