“I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.” PeopleThinkingSituationHorrorCreatingSuspenseThrowingRelatableWrenches Author:Jason Blum
“I think the most honest responses to the movies you get to watch are in houses and people's most private spaces, like the bedroom or in your own intimate space. I think that's where you feel safest, so when you're threatened in the place you feel safest, it makes for the scariest situations.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHouseSpaceSituationWatchesHonestResponseIntimateBedroomThreatened Author:Jason Blum
“So it's an interesting process just going through and seeing what works and what doesn't work, and what's the best version of it. It was a good process because I think we all collectively, when everyone would run into issues in the cut or know that things weren't working, they kind of glaringly stuck out so we could focus on fixing those things and it wasn't a situation where you would show it to ten people and you would have ten problems.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindShowsProblemRunningProcessInterestingSituationIssuesFocusCuttingSeeingTenStuckVersionsFixing Author:Bryan Burk
“We [Afghanistan] are constantly dealing with situations in which we must ensure that provinces or major cities do not fall into enemy hands. People need to understand that we don't have an air force and the forces that we do have used to get air support from NATO, which is no longer available. Our pilots have done wonders, but they are stretched thin. We are dealing with resources that have been spread thin.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensDoneHandsUsedFallForceCitiesSituationWonderEnemySupportAirMajorsResourcesAvailableSpreadAfghanistanPilotsProvincesNatoAir Force Author:Ashraf Ghani
“In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.” PeopleHumansPastOpportunitySituationSupportEncouragementStressfulHuman SocietyStressful Situations Book:Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays Source: Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays
“When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.” PeopleMayEndsGovernmentSituationClassCasesSecurityDangerousDegreesCreatingStandardsCrisisBordersProportionAssetsInvestorsExcessPersistLendingCorrelationUnwindMigrateLaxDangerous SituationsNational BordersFalse Sense Of Security Author:Seth Klarman
“I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be in. You're supposed to be on point, you're supposed to be at the top of your game, the funniest you can be, in about five minutes, in front of people wearing suits who really don't care, and they've probably already picked their person, but they have to see a handful just to satisfy the process. It's the most horrible, horrible process known to man. I wouldn't want anybody to go through it.” PeopleMenWantPersonsCareGamesProcessSituationKnownFiveMinutesFrontsDon't CareHorribleSuitsSupposed To BePilotsFive MinutesHandfulStressfulStressful SituationsWearing A Suit Author:Andy Dick
“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
“You see, this people [Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, etc.] simply believed that God existed in the situation they were faced with, and they trusted Him rather than themselves. The result? God said, "That pleases Me." They were men and women just like you and I, which is the most encouraging part of all. We don't find golden haloes, or perfect backgrounds, or sinless lives, we just find people. People who failed, who struggled, who doubted, who experienced hard times and low times in which their faith was eclipsed by doubt. But their lives were basically characterized by faith.” PeopleMenSaidHardPerfectResultsSituationDoubtLike YouPleaseLowsMen And WomenBackgroundsGoldenHard TimesEtcTrustedAbrahamDoubtedJacobGod ExistsPlease MeMost Encouraging Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity. Businesses that do this through voluntary exchanges not only benefit through increased profits, they bring better and more competitively priced goods and services to market. This creates a win-win situation customers and companies alike.” PeopleWinningCompanySituationRolesProductsIntegrityBenefitsResourcesProfitCustomersGoodsFewerWin WinGoods And ServicesWin Win Situation Author:Charles Koch
“Many people in my constituency come to see me absolutely distraught at the prospect of losing their private rented flat because of the imposition of a housing benefit cut. Social cleansing is going on in all of central London because of the benefit cap. That is a disgraceful situation.” PeopleSocialSituationCuttingBenefitsLosingLondonFlatsHousingCapsCleansingImpositionDisgracefulDistraught Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.” PeopleCountryTodayPoliticalProcessCommunityQualitySituationEconomyDoubtNo DoubtImprovingQuality Of LifeReformationPolitical EconomyPolitics And Economics Author:Ibrahim Babangida
“In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.” PeopleUseMightSituationIdealsDemocraticMaskCatholicismExposedMarxismArtifactsQuaintDemocratic Ideals Author:Terence McKenna
“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.” PeopleThinkingMenYearsHumansKindMayChildrenHas BeensReasonPhilosophyTodayLastsLanguageParentAnimalExistenceSituationPracticeMagicInfluenceLandBalanceMen And WomenYears AgoInstitutionsBoundariesParadiseNo ReasonPrimitiveAltruismChildren And ParentsClimaxDissolvingPsilocybin Author:Terence McKenna
“Even though 'Heathers' didn't make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.” PeoplePlayAbleSituationRolesAttractiveTransitionLots Of MoneyHeathers Author:Winona Ryder
“The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.” PeopleNeedsSituationLeaderEnvironmentResponse Book:Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
“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
“It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the situation, and then see how that character is going to react to that particular chaotic catastrophe. That's just my take on it, anyway. I don't really get too hung up on what the future of the show is.” PeopleWantCharacterShowsMistakeSituationParticularOppositesHungCatastropheCraveChaoticSitcom Author:Ty Burrell
“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
“Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values. If you look at history, history is just a succession of people meeting other people, either through commerce, voyages or wars.” PeopleIfsLooksWarSometimesValuesSituationEconomicMeetingsAcceptedCommerceVoyagesSuccession Author:Philippe Falardeau
“As you can imagine when you have to summon a force like that together, the opposing elements are pretty freaking gnarly. I would think of those pioneer movies where they've got the cook and the ladies loading the guns and firing at the surrounded wagons. I don't put Coulson in that category, I think he is on the upper tier of people who come to scrap at situations like that but everybody's involved.” PeopleThinkingTogetherForceSituationImagineInvolvedElementsGunCooksCategoriesPioneersOpposingScrapFiringWagonsGnarly Author:Clark Gregg
“When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.” PeopleKidsAgeSituationBreakClearRocksRevolutionNeededLoudRock And RollRepressionBreak ThroughUnfeeling Author:John Lennon
“I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.” PeopleThinkingShouldCommunitySituationIndustryDirectorsEssentialsHollywoodGenderDiscriminationProgressiveJudgedPersistHiringHorrificForward ThinkingGender GapGender Discrimination Author:Kathryn Bigelow