Quotes About Situation

The passage of time allowed for him and everyone else to see that the blame that had been assigned to an individual was more fairly bestowed on a situation.

What constitutes a gain or a loss depends on the representation of the problem and on the context in which it arises

This one they called "framing." Simply by changing the description of a situation, and making a gain seem like a loss, you could cause people to completely flip their attitude toward risk, and turn them from risk avoiding to risk seeking.

Even then, as I stood there, that first morning, filled with apprehension at the terrifying implications of my dreadful situation

If a man's life could be capitalized as X, the risk at Y, and the estimated damage from explosion at V, then a logician might contend that if V is less than X over Y, the bomb should be blown up; but if V over Y is greater than X, an attempt should be made to avoid explosion in situ.

I was 17 years old and missed many things about Barcelona, particularly the food. Fortunately, Sir Alex Ferguson realised my situation and helped me to grow. For me, the gaffer was like a second father.

Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

I was being laughed at. I hated it, so I made an adjustment to control the situation. All comics learn that.

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

My only opinion on the L&H 'home movie' situation - I regret we have no financial interest in them.

I liked being home playing in front of my people, but I just did not like the situation because I was playing shooting guard, and that is not my position. I would play it if someone like Rip got hurt, but to do it for an entire season, that is not my position. I got it done when I was asked to do. But inside, I know that is not me.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I'd never change just for change.

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.