Situation Quotes
4573 Situation quotes by 3032 unique authors
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Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new…
— Stephen Covey
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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create…
— Moshe Feldenkrais
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With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be…
— David McCullough
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It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information,
— Ted Olson
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You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!
— Edouard Manet
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Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
— Mick Jagger
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The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the…
— Tom Robbins
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In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide…
— Andy Summers
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The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a…
— Carl Rogers
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A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared
— Jack Ramsay
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Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments…
— Frederick Douglass
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As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and…
— Stephen Covey
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Balance is the key to my serenity. I attain balance by listening to my inner wisdom and to the wisdom of others. There is no…
— Julia Cameron
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When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and…
— Darren Johnson
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Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough…
— Colin Powell
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Once you envision something and the Universal forces come into play to help you in the creation of it, there's never again going to be…
— Esther Hicks
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We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we…
— Leo Buscaglia
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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's…
— Ashly Lorenzana
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I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that…
— Haim Ginott
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How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy and counseling, diplomatic…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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