Best situation & ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.”

Men Giving Whole Care Ability Situation Duty Months Six Raises Fortune Bread Luxury Sensual Generosity Expenses Dishes Toil Vicious Six Months Gratification Whole Family Peas

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.”

Ability Situation Projects Sticks Perseverance Heavy Finished Maturity Spite Opposition Sweat Discouraging Setback

Author:Ann Landers

“Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.”

Thinking Giving Problem Faith Peace Loses Ability Emotion Situation Worry Cold Filled Worried Heat Filling Ruthless Gloom Scrutiny Apprehension

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“There are situations where you can either rise to the occasion or you can feel sorry for yourself. Really that's within your own abilities to make that decision.”

Feels Ability Decision Situation Sorry Occasions Mma Feel Sorry For You

Author:Frank Mir

“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.”

“One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.”

Has Beens Values Ability Money Situation Appreciate Raises Value Of Money

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.”

Thinking Persons Stills Used Given Ability Situation Known Sitting Sitting Still

Author:Trey Songz

“We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.”

Ability Situation Skills Resources Luck Distance Landscape Underestimate Interiors Temperament Unspoken Unnoticed

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.”

Needs Feels Book Used Sports Ability Situation Football Capacity Strategy Athlete Endurance Athletic Stamina Wrestler Athletic Ability

Author:Dhani Jones

“The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.”

People Ifs Ability Situation Clear

Author:Billy Davies

“In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.”

Has Beens Sometimes Character Government Ability Situation Known Office Aim Consideration Appointments Great Office

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.”

“To determine whether or not you have the ingredients to be charismatic, answer the following questions: What are your real feelings about who you are? What do you believe in? Do you have goals or a mission in life? Do you project optimism? Do others turn to you for leadership? Noncharismatic people spend their lives auditioning for others and hoping they'll be accepted. Charismatic people don't doubt their ability to add value to a situation, so they move forward with their mission.”

Source: You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are

“I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.”

People Long Character Dark Ability Compassion Situation Insight Wit Tenderness Probing

Author:Dan Chaon

“For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.”

People Way Kind Light Difficult Ability Interesting Situation Disability Difficult Situations Extremity People With Disabilities

Author:Mark Haddon

“I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment.”

“One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.”

Needs Easy Sound Ability Situation Directors Finals Honestly

Author:Elia Kazan

“Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.”

Self Girl Challenges Ability Attitude Situation Boys Teacher Self Esteem Failure Approach Including Esteem Factors Attributes

Book:Shame: The Exposed Self

Source: Shame: The Exposed Self

“Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps”

Art Form Ability Situation Creativity Depends Gaps

Book:The Ignorant Maestro: How Great Leaders Inspire Unpredictable Brilliance

Source: The Ignorant Maestro: How Great Leaders Inspire Unpredictable Brilliance

“If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.”

People Ifs Mind Whole Ability Common Situation Who I Am Common Sense Good Mind

Author:Michelle Obama

“Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.”

People Thinking World Mean Real Ability Situation Development Skills Real World Dealing With People

Author:Oliver DeMille

“The health of your family or your office or your city directly affects the health of it after. The better you are at handling high-stress situations with little information, those skills lead to resilience and the ability to recover afterward.”

Littles Ability Cities Situation Information Skills Office Stress Resilience Our Family

Author:Amanda Ripley

“The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only very rarely situations where we can say he was being genuine.”

Actors Ability Situation Talent Genuine Remarkable Overlooked Formidable

Author:Volker Ullrich

“The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.”

“To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.”

People Firsts May War States Character Government Political Ability Situation Enemy Effects Resources Opposites Regard Aim Evaluate Gauges

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.”

People Feels Humans Ability Situation Conditions Capacity Aspect Angry Cruelty Human Condition Make Me Angry

Book:Bruce Nauman

Source: Bruce Nauman

“The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes versatility, intelligence, and ability to think quickly and calmly, to adapt to every situation.”

People Thinking Games Ability Situation Successful Football Speed Being Successful Cerebral Versatility

Author:Ray Rice

“Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.”

Enough Able Ability Forget Situation Comedy Forget You

Author:Madeline Kahn

“Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.”

Men Ability Situation Crisis

Author:Ruben Ostlund

“Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.”

Problem Ability Situation Doubt Handle Problems In Life

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress”

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