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Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.
Veterans should not lose the benefits they've earned through their service due to circumstances out of their control.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.
Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance!
Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.
The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.
Dad lived his life in a way that it was his character, not his circumstances, that dictated what his life looked like.
I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?
When God doesn't change a circumstance, He can change our hearts in knowing that He can change all things for the good.
However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.
Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.
I think life is too sacred to ever take it in any circumstances, even for the cure of a disease or something like that.
Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.
Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.
When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.
What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.
I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.
There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.
I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.
In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.
Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.
People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful.