Current Situation Quotes

Start where you are, use what you have.

People say it’s a radical proposal. Well, I think to have the current situation is what is radical. No other country has anything like it.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

[Visual images are] the surest way of conveying an idea. A leader or an interest can make itself master of current symbols to master the current situation.

Even before the [2008] recession, corporations were able to enhance profitability by taking advantage of using technology to perform or supplement the work of human beings. This was, on the whole, a manageable situation. Workers who were replaced by the technology were adapting by learning how to work with the technology; jobs in technology opened up to balance the jobs lost. The current situation is far different. During the recession, companies learned how to maintain production and profits with fewer employees. They assigned existing workers to take on tasks performed by those who were laid off, they converted full-time jobs to part-time jobs (which carried little or no expense to the company for employee benefits), and they outsourced.

The past does not define, you the present does.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

The current situation [in Washington DC] will shortly and irresistibly tempt the Congress to reassert federal control over the nation's capital city. If the mayor [Marion Barry] can't restore order, the federal government must.

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

This [increasingly severe large forest fires] is actually a social problem. It's got ecological and climate explanations, but it's a social problem, and it will take us humans to solve it. Public support for these tools is poor. Prescribed burning and managed wildfires are not well-supported. We actually all simply want fires to magically go away and take that pesky smoke with them, don't we? But there is no future without lots of fire and lots of smoke. That option is actually not on the table. Until we, the owners of public lands, make it our high priority to do something about the current situation, we're going to experience continued losses to megafires. So it's up to us. We can spread this message to our lawmakers, folks who can help us manage our fires and our forests. If we're unsuccessful, where will you go to play when your favorite places are burned black? Where will you go to breathe deep and slow?

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

The status quo is working.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

We can get distracted in arguing which of the two alternatives is better when either are far better than the situation we have today.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

I love princesses. And I think Cinderella is very strong. She's a young woman thinking outside of her environment, outside of her current situation, and she is choosing to believe that all is possible for her. And I think that is so admirable.

I think many people are not seeing the change. They're really upset with the current situation. We haven't seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time.

The worst time is always the present.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

If you know a better place to live right now than this country, get a ticket and try to get there.