Situation Quotes

4573 Situation quotes by 3032 unique authors

I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm… — Marina and the Diamonds
Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations. — Emily Post
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations.… — Alexander Rodchenko
One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in… — Alexander Rodchenko
The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only… — Edward Dmytryk
What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity? — Richard Saul Wurman
The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off… — Elspeth Huxley
The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow… — Sharon Gannon
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character,… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may… — Issan Dorsey
Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got… — Trent Shelton
Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have been… — Alanis Obomsawin
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of… — Michel Odent
The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love. — Robert Holden
With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a… — Beverly Engel
Difficult situations breed astonishing results. — Jeffrey Veen
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . — Sun Bin
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which… — Ann Plato
Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation… — Amanda Ripley
Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness,… — Marianne Williamson
I let go of the past and choose to accept every situation as being for me and not against me. — Iyanla Vanzant
There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but… — Bill Cosby
The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation. — Iris Murdoch
Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation. — James MacDonald

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