“The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.” MenLifeCourageGraceBearsCircumstancesGratitudeIdealsDignityBraveryPhilosophicalAccidentsEnduranceBe BraveBrave ManBravery And CourageNicomachean EthicsIdeal ManDeath With DignityDignity And Love Author:Aristotle
“As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.” TryingFoundDecisionNiceCircumstancesAccidentsHeroicDoing GoodLambsStealth Author:William James
“I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.” I CanSidesMy OwnViewsCareersSeriousCircumstancesMajorsIntellectualCommitmentTraditionBaseballAccidentsBackgroundsFortunateFeaturesMentalityEasternDestinedLifelongCapriciousOdysseyContingencyFamily Tradition Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.” IfsLooksLongTwoHardFactsSidesKindnessBrotherOughtCircumstancesRelationHotEndureAccidentsHandleObligationInjuryTouchedConsideringFamiliarityRepresentingYour BrotherProvocationManageableForbearanceIf ThenAggravatingLong Friendship Author:Epictetus
“No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.” NeedsDoeMatterOpportunityUnderstandingNatureEnvironmentCuttingCircumstancesDepthWideAccidents Author:Mary Webb
“That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.” MenMindBelieveDifferentNextGivenI BelievePerfectImpossibleHe ManFineCircumstancesConsequenceSafetyAccidentsFormerAviationInstructionNext TimeLegislationCautiousPresence Of Mind Author:Isambard Kingdom Brunel
“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.” InspirationalPayAttentionSpecialCircumstancesConnectionsCatholicAccidentsHippoAccidents Happen Author:Saint Augustine
“A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.” HappensRealizingCircumstancesAccidentsSlipsPresenting Author:Ari Marcopoulos
“It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.” CharacterPowerfulFateTroubleInfluenceFineCircumstancesCurrentsAccidentsTuningFine Tuning Author:Ian Mcewan