Quotes About Situations

We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

All situations of life are tests to bring out the real and the false.

The most effective strategies do not depend solely on violence—though this can play an instrumental role, by demonstrating superiority as much as expressing aggression—but benefit instead from the ability to forge coalitions. Little in the rest of this book will suggest that this list should be expanded. The elements of strategic behavior have not changed, only the complexity of the situations in which they must be applied.

Las estrategias, por tanto, no deberían entenderse como medios para conseguir el control sobre determinadas situaciones, sino como modos de afrontar situaciones en las que nadie tiene un control total.

He told his commanders that war could not be "conducted on a green table" and was prepared to delegate authority so that they could respond to situations as they found them rather than how the high command expected them to be. He distrusted generalities and fixed precepts. The important thing was to keep the objective in view while accepting the need for "practical adaptation.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." "But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.

In summary, those who have cultural belief systems that see control as external tend to react passively to authoritative orders rather than proceed on the assumption that they can redefine situations through their own actions.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

That's the thing about theories. You can theorize what you want, but at the end of the day when your theories become reality, when the situation you have theorized about is suddenly presented to you, your theories go flying out the window?

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.

I was lucky because my upbringing was so eccentric. It has helped me cope with unreal situations.

We had such a strange upbringing with such eccentric parents and so we were often put in situations where finding what was funny was a survival thing.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

It is easy to imagine situations where we sacrifice both freedom and safety at the same time: when we enter an abusive relationship or vote for a fascist. Similarly,

In football, you never know what can happen tomorrow. This is the elite, and you have to be ready for any situation that can occur.

the situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our "spiritual" side.

we must accept the circumstances we constantly find ourselves in as the place of God's kingdom and blessing. God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life. For those situations and moments are our life.

Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

the situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our "spiritual" side. A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying "Why?