From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course ...
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaki...
God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know...
My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clea...
In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Ea...
Perceptual fields are limited by the attractor patterns that they're associated with. This means that the capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the obse...
Jack Valentine: I don't think you fully appreciate the seriousness of your situation. Yuri Orlov: [pauses,sighs] My family has disowned me... my wife and son have left me... my brother is dead. Trust me, I fully appreciate the seriousness of my situa...
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life.
The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.
Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.
