“When people ask that question, it's very hard to nail down a formula or a circumstance that I always write in, but I definitely do believe that there have been moments, musically, when I have channeled something, you know?” PeopleKnowsWritingBelieveHas BeensHardMomentsAsksCircumstancesFormulasNails Author:Kimbra
“The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.” PeopleDangerCircumstancesAspectSusceptible Author:Joseph Stalin
“There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.” PeopleWayFirstsMayRealEndsSelfTurnsInterestSinResponsibilityCircumstancesBlameMerePityGod LoveJustifyRepentanceConfessionShiftingSelf InterestSelf PityCover Ups Author:Timothy Keller
“When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.” PeopleGivingStoriesPastSimpleEffortAttitudeFocusCircumstancesAspectPatternsAttractionAccessComplainingToneOur FutureProvidingComplaintsOur PastDeliberateYour FutureYour Past Author:Esther Hicks
“I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.” PeopleKindRealYoungCircumstancesSingersHonestlyBobMentorSongwritersDylanSinger SongwritersHaggardTroubadours Author:Jewel
“In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.” PeopleIfsFirstsSelfOur LivesAwarenessCreationCircumstancesShapesResponsibleSelf AwarenessEmpoweringLive ByPersonal LifeDefault Author:Stephen Covey
“Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain of saying, "This kind of leadership will cause this result in these circumstances and a very different result in those circumstances." This is academic malpractice of the worst kind.” PeopleWritingYearsKindBookDifferentPainCausesResultsWorstExampleCircumstancesInnovationAcademicMalpractice Author:Clayton Christensen
“You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.” PeopleLike YouCircumstancesConsciencePerceive Author:Carolyn Hax
“When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.” PeopleLooksWarSeemsInterestingCircumstancesCookingWorkersFocusedTroopsConventionalCleaningChasingArt Of WarLogisticsInfantry Author:Sarah Stillman
“I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange people, people whose decisions and logic and circumstances are not easily understood.” PeopleWantFeelsStoriesEnjoyDecisionStrangeCircumstancesUnderstoodLogic Author:Arthur Bradford
“All power within the microcosm of my world was held and wielded by people who look like me. Plus, I think Nigerians all have this sense that they are better than everyone, including white people. So I have the privilege of a certain distance. It may just be that. So in a sense, I can't claim that as any ability that I have, simply a matter of circumstance.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksMayI CanMatterCertainAbilityWhiteCircumstancesClaimsDistanceIncludingPrivilegeLike MePlusMicrocosm Author:Chris Abani
“I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.” PeopleThinkingHumansWarCertainSidesCircumstancesPhotography Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I still work that expectation/disappointment cycle all the time. I think it is part of the human nature and I think the most important thing is not to judge it. We are human and we do have expectations and a lot of our expectations are often not met. It is a process of learning how to be kind and compassionate and loving to ourselves when we don't get the things we want when people, circumstances, and opportunities don't match our expectations.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansKindStillsImportantOpportunityProcessHuman NatureJudgingCircumstancesMetsExpectationsImportant ThingsDisappointmentCyclesBe KindCompassionate Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It's a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that's good for the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayTryingMatterHelpingRememberSpiritLostDifficultAliveKingsCircumstancesHelp MeHusseinUnbearable Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“The education system is where young skulls full of mush are programmed and propagandized into the system. They are highly valuable. That's why they're subsidized. You know, universities are approaching the same circumstance we have in health care. What it costs is not related at all to market forces. Meaning what it costs is not related to what people can afford. You get right down to it, how many Americans, how many families can afford 20,000, 30,000, $50,000 a year or semester to send their kids off to college? It has to be subsidized.” PeopleKnowsYearsCareKidsYoungForceCollegeCircumstancesCostUniversityValuableHealth CareRelatedSkullsEducation SystemSemesterOff To College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsHappensOrderEnergyCircumstancesBlameGet BetterManipulate Author:Wayne Dyer
“Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained by circumstances to act a certain way. For example, should we invade ISIS? Can we invade ISIS? What would it take to invade ISIS? Once you ask that question you discover the price of that option and then you take a look at American politics and see that the country is probably not prepared to invest the 2 to 3 million people that it would take to defeat ISIS and the insurgency afterwards. All right, so that's not going to happen.” PeopleWayShouldFirstsLooksCountryHappensCertainActorsAsksNumbersMillionsImpossibleExampleTheoryCircumstancesPreparedDefeatArguingAmerican PoliticsIsisConstraintsInsurgency Author:George Friedman
“People who don't have as much power as they would like often begin by attributing their difficulties to the environment - competitors, bosses, economic circumstances, and so forth. But in reality people are customarily their own biggest impediment to being as powerful as they would like.” PeopleRealityPowerfulEnvironmentEconomicCircumstancesDifficultyBossCompetitorsImpediments Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“There would be some times where people wouldn't know how to act around me. Does he drink? Can I cuss? What can I do? And then there was other circumstances where it was, I just don't respect what you're trying to do.” PeopleKnowsTryingDoeWould BeKnow HowCircumstancesDrink Author:LeCrae
“I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.” PeopleWantHumansActorsHuman BeingsCircumstancesFascinatedObservers Author:Charlize Theron
“We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.” PeopleWorldMatterOrderUniverseCircumstancesNo Matter WhatEvolve Author:Marianne Williamson
“When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding.” PeopleTryingHeartSoulSeeingCircumstancesTemptationHeart And SoulResponding Author:Matt Bomer
“If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingStoriesFacesPurposeChallengesSituationMillionsFocusShareCircumstancesBenefitsDeserveDignityBiggerBridgesTragicFace To FaceTouristsAmplificationChallenging Situations Author:Annie Lennox
“It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.” PeopleCircumstancesFaultsSymbolsMonarchyAdulation Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came to believe over the years that a woman should be able to make this agonizing decision with her doctor and her family and her conscience, and that we should be very careful that we don't make that decision a crime except in the most extreme circumstances.” PeopleShouldYearsBelieveAbleEasyDecisionIssuesCrimeCircumstancesConscienceDoctorsCarefulExtremesAbortionAgonizing Author:Dick Durbin
“Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.” PeopleMayMeanHappensUnderstandingDoubtEventsCircumstancesExpectationsBehave Author:Epictetus
“Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.” PeopleKnowsHeartChildrenGivenRealizingBehindsDoorsCircumstancesCompassionateRaising ChildrenGraciousClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Candace Cameron
“I have gotten better at being patient and sitting with discomfort. Before I would worry and try to fix an issue and force circumstances to change or try to change people's minds sooner than was realistic. Now I wait and trust that everything passes and time really does heal everything.” PeopleTryingMindDoeForceWaitingWorryIssuesCircumstancesSittingPatientHealRealisticDiscomfort Author:China Forbes
“Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.” PeopleDifferentBeliefTeachingTaughtBuddhismCircumstancesAbsolutesCreatorDifferent PeoplesNegation Author:Dalai Lama
“The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things. That someone's circumstances may not be what you think they are or what they show to the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingTryingMayShowsEyeSidesOne ThingCircumstances Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their day-to-day drudgery of disability routines; but when hurting families place themselves under the shower of God's mercy, suddenly the clouds part. They realize there's hope, life, and even joy beyond their suffering.” PeopleFeelsJoySufferingRealizingHurtCircumstancesDespairMercyCloudsDisappointmentStuckDisabilityShowersDay To DayNo HopeDrudgery Author:Joni Eareckson Tada
“My purpose is to create circumstances, environments, businesses and communities where I am fully expressing my creative gifts with the intention to inspire other people to feel like they belong - first to themselves and then to a group that shares their common interest.” PeopleFeelsFirstsPurposeInterestCommunityCommonCreativeEnvironmentGroupsShareInspireCircumstancesIntentionInspire OthersCommon Interests Author:Mastin Kipp
“Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsHelpingProblemGoalSituationSuccessfulInformationNeededCircumstancesNewsBlameFocusedGossipSuccessful PeopleUnsuccessful Author:Darren Hardy
“We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."” PeopleThinkingWorldRealSeemsJobsGivenStuffEnjoySituationCircumstancesStructureResponseStuckBoundariesAcknowledgeDoomedConstraints Author:Ian Bogost
“My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.” PeopleI CanPainTeachingCircumstancesYieldControlledSatisfyingBecause I Can Author:Phillip Lopate
“Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.” PeopleWantNeedsDifferentWarReasonSituationSecurityCircumstancesConsequenceSyriaRefugeeLivelihoodBasic Needs Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I honestly haven't seen a lot people since we wrapped, really, but it's one of those things when you don't see someone for three months and then you pick right back up where you left off. I think Twilight is very special circumstance, and a special thing to be a part of, so there's this weird connection to have.” PeopleThinkingThreeLeftSpecialHavensMonthsCircumstancesPicksConnectionsHonestlyTwilightThree MonthsSpecial Things Author:Ashley Greene
“There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people lead, pushier lives. So there are all kinds of forms of adversity in the world.” PeopleWorldNeedsKindRunningFormGrewCircumstancesGrew UpAdversityAll Kinds Author:Robert Greene
“All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see that we can take them all and use them on the path in a way that actually invigorates and strengthens us, rather than defeats us. It's all very practical advice, and that's why I talk a lot about how to make our daily life into Dharma practice, otherwise it's easy to feel hopeless and helpless.” PeopleWayFeelsUseEasyDifficultPracticePathAdviceCircumstancesAngryDefeatPracticalsUpsetDaily LifeHopelessFrustratedHelplessRudeDharma Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.” PeopleThinkingPersonsCircumstancesFlowFixedBiasBiasedEbb And Flow Author:George Packer
“People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.” PeopleStruggleCircumstances Author:Roger Housden
“I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.” PeopleThinkingEndsViewsCircumstancesThe End Of The Day Author:T.I.
“I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.” PeopleThinkingCircumstancesLimitsOrdinaryExtraordinaryOrdinary People Author:Jodi Picoult
“The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked as President. If I don't have the public support, whether there's the so-called "Arab spring" - it's not spring, anyway - but whether we have this or we don't, if you don't have public support, you have to quit, you have to leave. If you have public support, in any circumstances you have to stay. That's your mission, you have to help the people, you have to serve the people.” PeopleIfsFirstsHelpingAsksPresidentSupportCircumstancesSpringMissionsQuittingSupport YouArab Spring Author:Bashar al-Assad
“[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.” PeopleWorldCultureFightingBlackOur LivesLike YouCircumstancesBlack People Author:Denzel Washington
“The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.” PeopleTryingHardCircumstancesNormalRuinsGood WorkDystopiaNsa Author:Edward Snowden
“The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.” PeopleThinkingGivingDifferentCircumstancesMajorsTrainingCrisisCreditCampaignsSignificantEnterpriseMidstExecutivesGood Sense Author:Barack Obama
“Earlier the world was bi polar. Foreign policy would be centered around two super powers. India was a little late in realizing that this bi polar situation was for namesake. Now the entire world, in changed circumstances, especially in 21st century, it is more interdependent and inter connected, earlier, the foreign policy was possible between governments, but today it is not possible just between governments. Government relations are important but increasing people to people contact is equally important. There's been a shift in paradigm.” PeopleWorldLittlesTwoImportantGovernmentWould BeTodayRealizingSituationCenturyPolicyChangedCircumstancesLateIndiaRelationConnectedContactForeign Policy21st CenturyParadigmSuper PowerNamesake Author:Narendra Modi
“There are people with physical disabilities that prevent them from having any hope - in some cases any actual hope and in other cases any practical hope - of marriage. The circumstance of being currently unable to marry, while tragic, is not unique.” PeopleCasesCircumstancesUniquePracticalsTragicDisability Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way people with intellectual disabilities are discriminated against. People are afraid of them. People sometimes assume that they don't have skills, gifts or abilities to contribute.” PeopleWaySometimesKidsDifficultAbilityEconomicCircumstancesSkillsIntellectualAreasAssumingDisabilityUrbanUrban AreasIntellectual Disability Author:Timothy Shriver