Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.
I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.
The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.
The Situation has mass appeal.
As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.
To arrive at the definition of the problem he must begin by finding the 'critical factor'. This is the element (or elements) in the situation that has to be changed before anything else can be changed, moved, acted upon.
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.
Weigh the situation, then move.
Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.
I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.
On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.
That's why football is so nice - it gives us the opportunity to react quickly and learn a lot from a situation, what were our mistakes, and where things went wrong.
Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.
It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.
There are many different ways to look at a situation, and it's important to look at things the way they are.
I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.
People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.
Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.
What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.
What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.
Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
