I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.
Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.
That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.
I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.
Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.
Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.
Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
I was very interested in highlighting group behaviour and I wanted to show that I think this is very fundamental about being a human being. . . that we are herd animals actually. So, I was looking for different situations that take place in different kinds of groups.
Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.
There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout against anyone - only against time.
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments. . . . [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation,. . . in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to,. . . [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.
You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.
Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.
When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't [be in].
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.
I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.