Situation Quotes - Page 9

• My Mom and I shopped all the time, she shops all the time, and I was always into fashion. I've been blessed to be in a situation where I can now buy some of the things that look good.

  Russell Westbrook

  Mom, Fashion, Blessed

  Source: www.gq.com

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• A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.

  Marie Winn

  Real, People, Events

  Marie Winn (1978). “Plug in Drug”, Bantam Books

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• Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Men, Different, Lasts

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• my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them. ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.

  Nina Berberova

  Law, Two, Choices

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• Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

  Russell T Davies

  Nice, Drama, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 06, 2016

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• you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

  Marietta Holley

  Neutrality, Down And, Advantage

  Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.197

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• There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

  Jo Coudert

  Failure, Self, Stopping

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.70, iUniverse

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• When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Situations In Life

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• PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.

  David Edward Kirk

  Opposites

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Writing, Articles, Reporters

  Laurie Beth Jones (1998). “The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life”, Hyperion

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• The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.

  James Vila Blake

  Greatness, Common Sense, Judging

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• A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.

  John Allen Fraser

  Difficult Situations, Needs, Assets

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.

  Ivan Konev

  Moscow, Knows

  "The Last Six Months: Russia's Final Battles with Hitler's Armies in World War II" by Sergeĭ Matveevich Shtemenko, (p. 312), 1977.

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• In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.

  Rob Payne

  Jobs, Skills, World

  "Working class zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 4,, 2003.

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• Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

  Yves Behar

  Mind, Stay Calm, Different

  "It’s Yves Behar’s World. We Just Live (Better) in It". Interview with Lauren Murrow, www.modernluxury.com. March 22, 2013.

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• We are what we think about.  When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts.  The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Strength, Thinking, Self

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• What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.

  Michael Dibdin

  Different, Given, Persons

  Michael Dibdin (2011). “Cosi Fan Tutti”, p.147, Faber & Faber

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• People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.

  Gunter Pauli

  Nature, Opportunity, Stressful Situations

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• So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Dream, Believe, Giving

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• I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.

  Eula Biss

  Kids, Son, Decision

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• There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

  Lester Levenson

  Pain, Imagination, World

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• I think there's an opportunity for a couple of them for sure, maybe more depending upon the situation, but it's too early to say which ones. It's a pretty competitive fight. And that doesn't mean the older guys are just going to walk into spots. I remind them all the time - you got to earn everything you get. And that's what made our team good last year, is guys really competed for opportunities and understood their roles.

  Tony Bennett

  Couple, Team, Mean

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• It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

  Iveta Radicova

  Country, Needs, Moments

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