Situation Quotes
4573 Situation quotes by 3032 unique authors
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Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.
— Neil Bonnett
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On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was…
— Leon Uris
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Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments…
— Mark Batterson
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Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation.
— Mark Batterson
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We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
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We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate…
— Philip Zimbardo
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When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.
— Leon Festinger
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Every day in practice I have to lead by example. But at the same time, when people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing,…
— Jeremy Lin
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It was just weird. Once you get the ball and you get in a situation, it's like haywire, everything goes crazy, and everybody's running around.…
— Nate Robinson
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get…
— Walter Murch
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No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of…
— Don McCullin
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Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and…
— Satyajit Ray
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Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
— Osbert Sitwell
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The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World…
— Naoto Kan
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The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.
— Katsuya Okada
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The overall situation has now become clear the DPJ has suffered a great setback.
— Katsuya Okada
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In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . . You must use…
— Seungsahn
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One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural'…
— Conrad Hyers
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Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition…
— Tony Hoare
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...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that…
— Donald Knuth
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All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular…
— June Jordan
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