Predicaments Quotes
80 quotes by 73 authors
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Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another…
— Daniel H. Pink
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The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.
— Steve Jobs
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In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises).
— Rich Hall
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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
— Jesse Jackson
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
— Henry James
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits ,…
— Paracelsus
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be…
— ASAP Rocky
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
— George Santayana
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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
— Isabel Allende
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Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.…
— Wendell Berry
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For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out…
— Woody Allen
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The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's…
— Ram Dass
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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people…
— George Washington
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How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face…
— Barack Obama
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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in…
— Charles Dickens
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She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something to scare her…
— Jeaniene Frost
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How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then,…
— Ann Brashares
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