“So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.” PeopleThinkingBigsTroubleCircumstancesVulnerableSwingsPendulums Author:John Podesta
“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsWellsKindMadeAmericaFatherCircumstancesActivityOfficeGood ThingsPostsEmployeeModestPost Office Author:David Rubenstein
“The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.” ThinkingTryingMeanHas BeensRealityCircumstancesPainfulSpendingMinistersThings To DoRight ThingPrimePrime MinisterPrivate SectorBorrowingChunksBail Author:John Redwood
“I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.” PeopleIfsThinkingImagineCircumstancesFaultsScrewed Up Author:Gore Verbinski
“I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.” PeopleThinkingWorldMayRememberCircumstancesFree WillAutonomy Author:Thomas Frank
“Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.” ThinkingDifficultUnderstandingCircumstancesProfoundDifficult Circumstances Author:Mo Yan
“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingWritingMindCharacterAbleDifficultEmotionStepsTeachHabitCircumstancesGiving UpSkinsDeterminedSentencesWhat You WantConventionalParagraphBasicsHabits Of Mind Author:Anne Bernays
“People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.” PeopleThinkingCan DoCasesNovelHappenedCircumstancesMemoirReverseBiographies Book:Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time Source: Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time