“Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.” WayLooksTurnsWishSituationExampleGratitudeGratefulWork OutOutcomesSilverBe GratefulPositive Outcome Author:Zelig Pliskin
“I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.” HumansArtBodyArtistFallWishSituationTeachingHighestNobleRuinsHuman BodyElevationSmall Beginnings Author:Giorgio Vasari
“Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.” ThinkingSelfPlayFactsGovernmentWishTermActingSituationRolesSourceNotionOneselfContraryFactorsDeceptionFixedAllowingSelf DeceptionWishful ThinkingRejectingAssessing Book:The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.” MenWayGivingFactsHelpingPastValuesLeftWishDecisionSituationVisionDrawsRateConclusionExpertsLogicalAssistantsAdministratorsSecond RateVisions Of The FuturePresent Situation Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.” NeedsWellsChildrenIdeasFeelingsCertainValuesWishParentUnderstandingResultsSituationProduceParticularOughtBehaviorFlowRelationOur ChildrenMethodPredictable Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.” Has BeensReasonSpiritualMovingCertainEnergyGivenWishRealizingChanceSituationAcceptingPathLessonsWasteWhere You AreWasting TimeSomewhere ElseSpiritual PathTime And EnergyOnward And Upward Author:Eileen Caddy
“Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.” MayWishPartySituationPositionConflictCompetitionDefinedIncompatibility Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.” PeopleThinkingEnoughFacesWishHurtSituationHonestyImmoralRottenVindictiveFacing The Truth Author:Johnny Carson