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- Nov 07, 2020
Situation Quotes
How people actually respond when a situation shows up.
A few situation quotes here come from unexpected angles, one performer recalling how much fun an odd voice role turned out to be, another imagining a better outcome if future leaders had taught in high-need schools first. The Best collection covers related optimism.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.
- Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have fathers in the home married to their mother, involved in their lives, investing in them, investing in the next generation.
- Thoughts
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be easy to get swept up into catastrophizing the situation once your thoughts become negative. When you begin predicting doom and gloom, remind yourself that there are many other potential outcomes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more about the self in relation to others, and how you feel you represented yourself in a situation, and how you were able to engage. So it's less about how others see you and more about how you see yourself.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
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- Nov 07, 2020