In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation. ' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.
Economists often talk about the 8020 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
There is a good side to every situation.
I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.
If you have a negative thought about a world situation, dwell upon the best that could happen in that situation.
You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.
I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.
I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range of material in another painting. I'm interested in a fairly comprehensive and orchestrated synthesis that might bring about a new situation consisting of this hidden material. I'm interested in hidden source material.
Usually they have to deal with a dubbing situation or subtitles, and it takes you out of the experience. That's why we wanted to make something that felt really immersive for Chiniese audience, but it takes a lot of work to make 2 versions of a movie!
There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!
Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.
If you want to have the right to have that conversation with your agent - "I know you sent it to me, I know you like it, but I just really think it's terrible" - you need to have the full details about script. You don't want to be in that situation where your agent says, "What about after the first 20 pages where it turns into a psychedelic musical?" And you're like "What? I thought it was an action-rom!"
There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.