Situations Quotes

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.
Paul Hawken

True, Themselves, Express

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
Mariel Hemingway

Life, History, Experience

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
Jasper Johns

Sometimes, Times, Both

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
William Devane

Real, Try, Learn

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
Carlisle Floyd

Choose, Characters, Subject

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.
Jonathan Coe

Political, Sometimes, Start

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
Derek Jacobi

Faith, Time, Yourself

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
Patricia Heaton

Life, Week, Encounter

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.
Brad Paisley

Love, Creativity, Celebrate

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
Anne Stevenson

Understand, Write, Used

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
Atom Egoyan

Film, Worked, Audience

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard

Dreams, Great, Poetry

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
Paula Cole

Success, Hard, Working

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.
Brian Molko

Great, Enjoy, Find

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.
Gina Carano

Art, Fighting, Used

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.
LeAnn Rimes

Judge, Nothing, Decisions

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
Tim Heidecker

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
Menander

Good, Saying, Others

To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.
Debra Messing

Life, Nothing, Real

Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.
Payne Stewart

Him, Control, Free

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.
David Coverdale

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
John Holt

Him, Before, Problems

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?
Toby Jones

Men, Big, Often

When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.
Feist

Friends, Big, Keep

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Two, Again, Principle

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.
Deana Carter

Music, Through, Living

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.
Jerry Bruckheimer

Real, Whether, Create

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.
William H. Macy

Rich, Guy, White

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
Zoe Kazan

Girl, Used, Changing

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.
Emmanuelle Chriqui

Life, Girl, Career

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