Circumstantial Factors Quotes

According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.

Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up.

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.

Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain of saying, "This kind of leadership will cause this result in these circumstances and a very different result in those circumstances." This is academic malpractice of the worst kind.

Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.

For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.

I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

You have to realise that players change every year, just like we change because every year is different, as things happen in our lives.

Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.

The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.

Terrorists are not bad; they are limited by circumstances. They are human beings. I am very, very, very sad when they explode themselves and kill 40 to 60 persons. It's terrible. But also, I am sad for them, a young person who lost his whole life. It's terrible. They are limited by religion, by politics, by economical interests.

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.