“My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.” BelieveDifferentI BelieveMistakeSituationIndustryActivitySkillsLimitsProjectsUnderstoodInvestingBackgroundsSpheresMy MistakesBackground Knowledge Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“I don't think you can hold someone accountable for trampling someone else, because that person was probably pushed from behind. But if someone picks your pocket in a crowd, it's no different from any other act of that kind, in another situation.” IfsThinkingKindPersonsDifferentBehindsSituationPicksCrowdsPockets Author:John Seabrook
“It seemed like so much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or emailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants. I think it's sort of shifted the energy of that first romantic meeting, where it's quicker, perhaps more desperate, more energetic, in a whole different way, and it's resulted in a situation where people seem to be sometimes more comfortable having a sexual relationship than an emotional one.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsKindDifferentSometimesWholeSeemsTodayEnergyRoomsSituationEmotionalComfortableDistanceMeetingsDifferent WaysDesperateEnergeticParticipantsTextingRomantic Relationship Author:Ivan Reitman
“If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.” IfsFeelsDifferentFeelingsVoiceSituationRightsEqualDeserveLoudGiantsLoud Voices Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“The best thing wrestling ever taught me was how to network with people, how to talk to people, how to deal with a lot of different kinds of people in different situations and being a good guy and a bad guy teaches you how to be able to have a thick skin.” PeopleKindDifferentAbleGuyDealsSituationTeachTaughtSkinsBest ThingsWrestlingDifferent KindsThickBad GuysGood GuyThick Skin Author:Ric Savage
“Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.” WayKindDifferentMy OwnPerfectSituationCreatingStormDifferent WaysSchoolingPerfect Storm Author:Andy Biersack
“Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis and Briseis are strong, passionate women and in another time and place their lives would have been very different. Part of the tragedy of their characters is how much they have to offer - and how little of that they get to realize. Thetis spends the whole novel fighting the limitations placed on her, desperately trying to eke out the best she can from a bad situation. This makes her fierce and terrifying.” TryingLittlesHas BeensDifferentHardWholeCharacterFightingStrongRealizingSituationNovelOffersTragedyAncientPassionateLimitationInchesFierceGreeceAnother TimeAncient GreeceBad SituationsPassionate Woman Author:Madeline Miller
“All the battles and wars I been through, and all the battle scars I got it's been a learning experience. Everything I been through made me the man I am so if it was different I would be different so I would say that I really learned something from every situation.” IfsMenMadeDifferentWarWould BeSituationHe ManBattleScarLearning ExperienceBattle Scars Author:Kurupt
“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.” IfsYearsDifferentForceBusinessSituationEnvironmentInfluencePossibilityNegativeYears AgoImpactAssumingBunchOptimisticPositivelyNegative Influence Author:Jeffrey Hollender
“To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.” PeopleDifferentDealsSituationJourneyCircumstancesDiscoveryStorytellingGood Storytelling Author:Scott Cohen
“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.” DifferentUseSpeakLanguageSituationCreativityCommunicationDegreesInfiniteVarietyPhrasesCoinsFinite Author:David Lodge
“In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.” KnowsDifferentSituationCircumstancesThousandDifferent Things Author:John Piper
“Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.” DifferentStatesActionCoursesSocialCompanySituationPlansPolicyDesignProduceMaterialsActivityIntellectualSickPatientWelfareDesignerEngineersRemedySocial WelfareArtefacts Author:Herbert Simon
“So, it's a delicate thing, but at the same time our producers and writers are very much aware of the potential downfall that could ensue so I think they're going to be very careful about how they do that. At the same time I don't think they want to leave the characters in the same holding pattern that they've been in for a while. I think that they're all trying to put the characters in a different situation.” ThinkingWantTryingDifferentCharacterSituationPatternsCarefulProducersDelicateDownfallDelicate Things Author:Emily Deschanel
“Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.” KindDifferentActorsSituationAdventurePretendingDifferent KindsJunkie Author:Willem Dafoe
“I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.” PeopleThinkingWellsDifferentFictionSituationKnownViolenceDangerStressNotionRangeBehaveGreat Men Author:Marge Piercy
“I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people - be like the fly on the wall. Even if it's two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don't know what it's like to fit in an everyday life situation.” PeopleIfsKnowsTwoDifferentReasonKidsSituationStudyWallFitSittingEverydaySwingsDisguiseEveryday LifeBenchesOld Lady Author:Michael Jackson
“With comedy, you get an immediate response. I'm the whole kit and the kaboodle. I am the whole thing and can steer the whole situation how I want to. With film, you are basically in one area. Comedy is straight to it and the film is heavily shaped the camera and editing, so it's different.” WantDifferentWholeFilmSituationComedyAreasCamerasResponseEditingSteers Author:Joe Torry
“We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.” PersonsDifferentHardMovingCommonHalfResponsibilitySituationCuttingAirRight NowSixChinaUsaSandTargetTailsFeathersOstriches Author:Jay Inslee
“Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.” HumansTwoDifferentAbleSituationPerspectiveScience And ReligionDifferent Perspective Author:Jeremy Griffith
“For people who are invested in these characters and the back-story of the universe and everything, all of these things come to a resolution in Mass Effect 3. And they are resolved in a way that's very different based on what you would do in those situations.” PeopleWayDifferentCharacterStoriesUniverseSituationEffectsMassResolutionMass Effect Author:Casey Hudson
“Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.” YearsDifferentRealityThreeNationsSituationCircumstancesEuropeFavorsThree YearsRegulationHistoricJoiningMayorsInappropriatePolandDifferent TimesWarsaw Author:Lech Kaczynski
“I do believe young people should be obligated to try different types of music - that is what education is. But once you're in a situation as an adult, it doesn't benefit anybody - at least in my experience - to force music on people that they don't like or do not have an interest in - whether it's three-hundred years old or newly written.” PeopleShouldTryingYearsBelieveDifferentYoungThreeForceInterestSituationWrittenTypeBenefitsHundredAdultsDifferent Types Of Music Author:Michael Hersch
“To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.” DifferentPlaySituationSuccessfulStyleCoachingBeing SuccessfulTeammateDifferent Styles Author:Sue Bird
“Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.” FeelsMindDifferentSometimesHumanityReligiousResponsibilitySituationSourceConflictTraditionPeace Of MindDivisionBrotherhoodSisterhoodReligious TraditionsGreat Responsibility Author:Dalai Lama
“Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.” PeopleWayWantIdeasDifferentSituationGroupsApproachDifferent WaysDifferent Ideas Author:Bobby Morley
“Something that is appealing is wars are terrible and ugly and hard and each conflict is different, but of every conflict I've ever gone to, I've also seen people being extraordinary in a good sense. It's not just a black and white extreme situation that pushes people to extremes and they do crazy bad stuff. You also see crazy brave stuff. You see humanity in a different light.” PeopleDifferentWarHardLightHumanityStuffBlackWhiteSituationGoneCrazyTerribleConflictBraveExtraordinaryUglyExtremesBlack And WhiteGood SenseBad Stuff Author:Shaul Schwarz
“For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get to where you want to get to. I think a lot of bands make the same record over and over again because they're married to the same three or four people. At some point they've done all they can do with their own imaginations.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasDifferentDoneThreeCan DoImaginationSituationRecordsFourBandMarried Author:Mark Oliver Everett
“People have really different methods of working. Some people prepare tons and tons of material, literally on paper, and they will use as much of it as they can. Some people prepare various lines in their heads and various avenues to go. And some people show up literally going, "I know who I am and I know what the situation is, but I'm just going to see what comes out."” PeopleKnowsDifferentUseShowsLinesSituationMaterialsPaperMethodVariousWho I AmAvenues Author:Jim Piddock
“I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.” FeelsTryingDifferentSometimesInterestSituationPopsGenreAlways TryingDifferent GenresNew Situations Author:Dylan McDermott
“Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDifferentSometimesReasonTurnsOpportunityChallengesSituationWorstCircumstancesOptimismGood ThingsUnusualWorst ThingsOutlook Author:S. Truett Cathy
“Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.” DifferentLevelsSituationDifferent PlaceDifferent Levels Author:Lauryn Hill
“I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.” DifferentSituationDaughterRaisedUnusual Author:Elizabeth McGovern
“I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.” PeopleWorldShouldBookDifferentAsksFoundHalfSituationOfficeSpendingAsk MeMy TimeHikingDifferent WorldsMidwest Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.” PeopleThinkingDifferentReasonSituationCasesScreensVarietyDifferent PeoplesRadar Author:Barack Obama
“I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.” ThinkingWorldWayDifferentHardCharacterGuyCertainFightingActorsSituationPiecesCircumstancesInevitablePrivilegedThis GuySimilarity Author:Dustin Clare