Situation Quotes - Page 40

• Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

  Stan Kroenke

  Sports, Winning, Creating

  8 Copy quote

• I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Years, Essence, Drunk

  12 Copy quote

• And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Photography, Reality, Games

  10 Copy quote

• It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.

  Saint Cecilia

  Dream, Play, Joy

  251 Copy quote

• Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Two, Perspective, Different

  10 Copy quote

• Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

  Essence Atkins

  Opportunity, Priorities, Challenges

  "Essence Atkins ‘Are We There Yet?’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 19, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

  Doug Liman

  Smart, Character, Dark

  "Doug Liman: How to Make an Original Hollywood Blockbuster". Interview with Garin Pirnia, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

  Lou Doillon

  Father, Writing, Men

  "Lou Doillon? At 30, With Her First CD, She Won a French Grammy. Now Her CD Is Here. Lucky Us" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.

  Lou Doillon

  Mirrors, Desire, Sides

  4 Copy quote

• For the future, be true to yourself. If you're gonna be influenced by someone be influenced by them. Don't cop them so much that you're a clone. No one wants to deal with a clone. There's not that much more substance in being a clone, but definitely be influenced by people...take what you can from that and sculpt it into your own situation. In doing so, you'll be happy and I think your people will be happy listening to what you do.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Thinking, People, Listening

  6 Copy quote

• For people who are invested in these characters and the back-story of the
  universe and everything, all of these things come to a resolution in
  Mass Effect 3. And they are resolved in a way that's very different
  based on what you would do in those situations.

  Casey Hudson

  Character, People, Different

  4 Copy quote

• Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

  Francesca Marciano

  Children, Littles, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

  Jane Austen

  Teacher, School, Men

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.203, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to sit in the studio with a copy of the (Saturday Evening) Post laid across my knees ... And then I'd conjure up a picture of myself as a famous illustrator and gloat over it, putting myself in various happy situations, surrounded by admiring females, deferred to by office flunkies at the magazines, wined and dined by the editor.

  Norman Rockwell

  Editors, Office, Magazines

  6 Copy quote

• The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Mean, Rights, Skills

  8 Copy quote

• That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.

  Kobe Bryant

  African American, Defense, Culture

  "Whom Does Kobe Bryant Represent?". Interview with Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. April 1, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

  Willis Regier

  Rivals, Favors, Welcome

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles is in fact a constructive effort to understand unity, we are able to revise our view of the situation, moving from reprimand and prohibition to the intelligent channeling of his efforts and the fostering of discovery.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Moving, Flower, Intelligent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even if it remained for 10 more years, it is not the commission that will solve the justice situation, it is us, the Guatemalans, who must see if we truly want to fix our institutions, strengthen them and move forward.

  Otto Perez Molina

  Moving, Years, Justice

  4 Copy quote

• Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Struggle, Limits, Life Is

  7 Copy quote

• Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Reading, Writing, Emotional

  Source: www.believermag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

  Mike Leigh

  Acting, Actors, Way

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Reality, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out.

  James Shikwati

  Order, Organization, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I ran for president because I wanted to help Lithuania and its people during a difficult time. My country was on the very edge of an economic crisis, and people were disappointed by the economic situation and the political elite. We all needed change and motivation to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome the difficulties.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, Motivation, Order

  Source: www.glamour.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source