Explaining Hard Situations Quotes & Sayings

My anger subsides, I'd like to pee. — Samuel Beckett

Ask a man to explain his success and he will typically credit his own innate qualities and skills. Ask a woman the same question and she will attribute her success to external factors, insisting she did well because she "worked really hard," or "got lucky," or "had help from others." Men and women also differ when it comes to explaining failure. When a man fails, he points to factors like "didn't study enough" or "not interested in the subject matter." When a woman fails, she is more likely to believe it is due to an inherent lack of ability.8 And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree.9 The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.10 — Sheryl Sandberg

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation. — Hannah Arendt

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest. — Niki De St. Phalle

Author Malcolm Gladwell believes that one can be an expert at something after putting in ten thousand hours of practice. — Anonymous

I won't tell you how I managed to break in, since I don't want the authorities figuring out, but let's just say that if you're going to make a gate, make sure it reaches all the way to the ground. — Meg Cabot

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger. — Frederick Lenz