We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me'
I think the most honest responses to the movies you get to watch are in houses and people's most private spaces, like the bedroom or in your own intimate space. I think that's where you feel safest, so when you're threatened in the place you feel safest, it makes for the scariest situations.
I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to start writing is to just start writing. ' The same goes for improvisation. You want to start improvising, just start playing notes. And the more you do that, the more comfortable - or not comfortable - but I guess how you're able to adapt to situations. You become more familiar with your instrument. As soon as you have a musical thought, you can go ahead and add to that musical thought and know your way around.
Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.
We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.
For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.
Ask yourself what you could do to make situations less difficult. Do it, even if you think you shouldn't have to.
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.
I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.
The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
I think I'm probably going to have more luck on tour, on the road, than I am at home, because as hectic as traveling can be, I have a little bit more control, for life situations out there on the road. It's the one aspect of my life I feel like I do have some control of. I can wake up in my hotel room, I'm alone and I can ease into the day and do what I need to do. It's not like I've got to get up and drive the kids to school, feed the dog, get to the gym, go to practice, go pay a bill, you know what I mean?
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.