Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

Paul Schrader

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• There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • America
  • Know
  • Situation

• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Up
  • Situation
  • Dreaming

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Right
  • Situation
  • Now

• Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Advice
  • Situation
  • Boss

• There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Life
  • Situation

• I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Born
  • Situation

• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Future
  • Know

• I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Worst

• Situation very serious... Those ordered to rescue the Führer are keeping silent... Disloyalty seems to gain the upper hand everywhere... Reichskanzlei a heap of rubble.

  

  Martin Bormann
  • Serious
  • Situation
  • Disloyalty

• I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no civil rights march ever did.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Hand
  • Situation
  • March

• Imagine if you came to work and you wanted to be positive, and somebody made a positive situation negative. I don't want to be negative. I've been fighting for 17 years, always negative. Why can't I have something positive done?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Work
  • Done
  • Why

• The situation is very serious, there has been a clear abuse of human rights, a lack of democracy and a lack of openness.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Democracy
  • Serious
  • Situation

• Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between what people say and what they do. People might tell you they are excited about your new product, but when they are in a buying situation their behaviour might be totally different.

  

  Alexander Osterwalder
  • People
  • Different
  • Words

• Sometimes you can defuse a difficult situation simply by being willing to understand the other person. Often all that people need is to know that someone else cares about how they feel and it attempting to understand their position.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Girl
  • Situation
  • Administration

• The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Compliment
  • Disposition
  • Politeness

• There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.

  

  Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
  • Innovation
  • Learned
  • Approach

• Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Laws
  • Untruth

• That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

  

  Paul Schrader
  • Situation
  • Disposition
  • Come Up