Situation quotes
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"In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us."
"The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna"
"Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation."
"In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain."
"Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved."
"I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation."
"I would never find myself or unlikely to find myself in a room where I have a skeptic who brought me in. But I very often am in a situation somebody who's there who didn't invite me was a skeptic. That happens all the time."
"For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation."
"There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of."
"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]."
"We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other."
"Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux."
"I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad."
"I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it."
"Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me."
"But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened."
"A smile can change the situation of the world."
"Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places."
"It's fear that makes a situation dangerous."
"We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile."
