“Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do with not accepting things, not excepting life on life's terms. My life becomes a lot easier when I'm willing to just accept. I don't have to like circumstances as they are, but I have to accept them and that's where I always seem to get thrown, when I try to will my way instead of accept things the way they are.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsI CanSeemsTermDealsAcceptingWillingCircumstancesEasierMy WayThrownAccepting Things Author:Matt Dillon
“Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingProblemPainDealsEnvironmentRacismToolsHatredIncreaseDenialFrustrationFeel BetterScapegoat Author:Matt Dillon
“My dad kept me away from people who treat children wrong. It's just amazing that there is such a way to raise a person without giving them complexes. But nobody does it. They think it should be the old school. But look at the products. Wouldn't it be great if you could avoid the complexes? Then you could deal with the complexes of life.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingShouldLooksChildrenPersonsDoeSchoolDealsProductsDadTreatsRaisesComplexesMy DadOld School Author:Juliette Lewis
“Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people's criticisms of my film choices.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveLooksI CanFilmChoicesDealsCriticism Author:Mila Kunis
“I enjoy trying to figure out a way to deal with machines - they become like little buddies or something. It's almost the same way you might develop a relationship with a dog - maybe that's weird to say - but there becomes an understanding you reach after a while.” WayTryingLittlesMightEnjoyUnderstandingDealsDogFiguresMachinesBuddyUnderstanding You Author:Panda Bear
“I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.” MenWayFallDealsHe ManAgreeSilentBlockEmailRespondingNot Responding Author:Emily Yoffe
“To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.” ThinkingWayHumansValuesFightingEvilDealsResponsibilityFellows Author:Beatrix of the Netherlands
“Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.” WayNeedsEnoughProblemGoalAnswersDealsAttentionCreativityCreativeModelsExcitingRemoveKeep GoingGood Life Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.” WayDealsPlansMomBest WayCardsSingle MomBeing A Single Mom Author:Tichina Arnold
“The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.” WayGovernmentCoursesDealsIssuesEssentialsCommitmentIncreaseRatePopulation Author:Robert McNamara
“There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.” IfsThinkingWayHeartLittlesImportantTogetherLanguageAbilityDealsMagicPoetMaterialsTendenciesUnconsciousFormulasAbility To SeeGimmicks Author:Erica Jong
“I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way.” IfsWayRealPlayCharacterActorsDealsSceneSubtext Author:John Barrowman
“Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is, it could have been far longer had I gone with an omniscient third-person narrator, or multiple point-of-view characters, since either of those would have enabled me to impart much more detailed information about the history and geography of the world.” WorldWayFirstsPersonsLongHas BeensBookCharacterViewsDealsGoneIssuesInformationThirdsStrategyPoint Of ViewDescriptionMultipleCould Have BeenGeographyFirst PersonImpartNarratorsOmniscientThird Person Author:Neal Stephenson
“So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I write in hotel rooms. That's not exactly balancing. Actually, writing in hotel rooms means that I'm refusing to deal with the problem.” WayWritingMeanRealProblemRoomsDealsBalanceDramaPerformancesHotelHotel RoomsLive Performance Author:Philip Glass
“A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways.” IfsWayFeelsMayFormSpiritCultureDealsExistenceModernTypeInvolvedWestPatternsDenyDemonGatesDeniedAncestorEntityManipulateIndigenousNeurosisElementalsIndigenous Culture Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."” PeopleWayYearsMayProblemBodyDealsOffersSurpriseStartingResilienceMedicalFixedMultipleBreaking DownSurprise MeUnpreparedFalse HopeMedical Problems Author:Katy Butler
“Culture is the intersection between people and dealing with the journey of life itself. How to deal with life, how a people deals with life is literally manifested in its culture, in its food, in its music, in its art, in the way you dance, the way you communicate.” PeopleWayArtLife IsCultureDealsJourneyCommunicateLife JourneyIntersections Author:Wendell Pierce
“George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.” IfsWayTryingAmericaDealsStruggleFeetEurope Author:Juliette Binoche
“It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can deal with. The standard cure for a stuttering economy is to go out and buy an SUV and three more refrigerators. That's obviously not the way to go.” WayTurnsThreeDealsEconomyIssuesEasierStandardsPopulationObviousExtremesCuresConsumptionRefrigeratorsStutteringSuvs Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“With both parents in the workforce 100 percent of the time, there's just no way to care for somebody on the side - either somebody has to take time off work or somebody has to pay someone to provide that care. In either it represents a big financial blow, and families just don't have the flexibility to deal with it.” WayBigsCareParentSidesDealsPayPercentFinancialBlowTake TimeFlexibilityWorkforceTime Off Author:Amelia Warren Tyagi
“Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.” ThinkingWayWarDealsTechnologySonPoliticianDaughterConsequenceHarmBarriersDroppingSon And DaughterAgainst War Author:P. W. Singer