One of the big draws of the show is here’s a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he’s placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That’s what is appealing about Jack – he takes charge.
I think it’s fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to perhaps handle situations a little bit different.
I am actually a very unspeaking person. I’m not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don’t know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.
I’ve always been interested in an architecture of resistance – architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you’re offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: ‘Do I want to be a part of this?’
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There’s something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It’s a stereotype but it’s true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.
I’m saying that people who are enmeshed in situations of subjugation and have to live, have to find ways to project their dignity as human beings – in spite of all the efforts of those around them to degrade them – I’m saying that this music is the manifestation of the dignity in the life that has always been present.
Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don’t develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn’t have too much money, then it was more likely.
There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the top I’d put Dexter Filkins. He’s an extraordinary man in terms of his nerve and ability to get into dangerous situations and tell the story cogently. He’s bringing back real human stories. I admire that.
Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn’t let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.
It’s really easy to end up on the ‘Daily Mail’ if you put yourself in situations where you’ll end up on the ‘Daily Mail,’ and it’s really easy to not if you don’t do that.
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.
For me, whenever I would see a lot of ‘black films,’ I didn’t feel represented in it. I didn’t feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there’s nothing funny about them, but they’re rare, and they don’t last all that long.
I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don’t interact properly in certain social situations.
I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I’m not scared of having a go.
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
I’ve been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.
I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold – we don’t interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don’t scream in your face with tears – we go home and cry on our own.
I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.
Our live set’s become increasingly complex recently; we’ve been doing stuff that’s been vastly too much information for most people to deal with and I think it’s quite interesting watching how people behave in those situations, under those circumstances.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Practical wisdom is what’s called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
I kind of remember when I was young, I used to hang out with my dad sometimes. And I can remember just following him in and out of these domestic situations. Going to the grocery store, we’d go pick up my other brother, or we’d go here, go there.
For those who have served in combat, life is never the same. It puts the most stressful civilian situations into a whole different context.
I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren’t tense.
I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans.
I’ve avoided situations where I wouldn’t have creative freedom.
I think it’s important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone I’m dating had more time for a console than me.
The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it’s the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.
This is one of the reasons I like to act – it’s because acting forces you into situations you don’t know.
What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn’t begin to do that.
There are a lot of things that I love, but if you’re just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over… So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you’re in situations with the people who make you happy and when you’re not.
Being funny wasn’t a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.
As one who has been in hard situations, I believe that I know how to deal with complicated and hard situations.
With acting, I’ve always gotten by in life acting in situations. I’m a small person. I didn’t have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
I’ve actually been in situations where I’ve turned down a lot of money to continue on, in certain shows, or to do something that would have lasted years when I didn’t even like it. I didn’t want to be in any one spot for years, unless I really believed in it, and I really believe in ‘Being Human.’
I’m really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion – that sense you find when you’re traveling.
People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.
Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.
My songs are based on my keen observation. I have picked these situations from my surrounding and have presented a real situation about the youth and their mindset.
