Situation Quotes - Page 12

• When I was younger, I'd get very empirical with myself. "I have a hypothesis about myself. I'll put myself in a situation, see what happens, then I'll draw a conclusion based on the empirical evidence. Hypothesis: I can play basketball." So I'd try. "Conclusion: I cannot play basketball."

  Demetri Martin

  Basketball, Play, Trying

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

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• We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Frustration, Reality, Giving

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• The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.

  Anne Katherine

  Perspective, Resilience, Energy

  Anne Katherine (2012). “Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Certain, Ifs

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• the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Real, Grows

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

  Bruce Kovner

  Firsts, Reason, Caught

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• You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.

  Nick Jonas

  Uncomfortable

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

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• If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

  Pawan Kalyan

  Believe, Violence, Kill Me

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

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• There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

  Sonia

  Appreciation, Motivation, Integrity

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• America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, wed understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.

  Michael Arrington

  Hate, Fall, America

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• I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

  Michael Arrington

  Writing, Issues, Trying

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• Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Worry, Waste

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• A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

  Marianne Williamson

  Teaching, Humility, Responsibility

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• The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.

  August Wilson

  Philosophical, Expression, America

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• But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

  Billy Higgins

  Real, Japan, Knows

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• You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

  Julian Assange

  Sensible, Knows

  "Julian Assange: the whistleblower" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2010.

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• I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.

  Amy Lee

  Feelings, Want, Lasts

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• A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm flexible. The philosophy stays the same though. I don't think that you can adapt it to every possible situation. You need the right mindset, and it depends on how the players see the coach and vice versa. The coach is the focal point of the team but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.

  Louis van Gaal

  Team, Philosophy, Player

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• If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

  Gerry Adams

  Response, Ifs

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• If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

  Virender Sehwag

  Games, Play, Pressure

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• You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.

  Harbhajan Singh

  One Day, Different, Roles

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• Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Worst Situation, Goal, Challenges

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• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  Xavier Rudd

  Powerful, Mean, Play

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• Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.

  Mike Duncan

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

  George W. Romney

  Prayer, Decision, Firsts

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