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"I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection."
"Allow situations in your life to become your teacher."
"Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable."
"When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor."
"To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation."
"If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally."
"An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation."
"I'm afraid of sharks - but only in a water situation."
"Genius is independent of situation."
"Weigh the situation, then move."
"It's not the situation, but whether we react, or respond, to the situation that's important."
"Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something."
"It's funny how money change a situation."
"...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself."
"The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations."
"Be who you are in every situation."
"Always engage yourself positively with situations."
"Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within."
"Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone."
"The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes"
