Crisis Quotes - Page 30

• We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

  Avi Lewis

  Inequality, Underemployment, Joblessness

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.

  David Allen

  Clever, Stupid, Focus

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

  David McCullough

  Determination, Shadow, Courageous

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Environmental, Spiritual Crisis

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• Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

  Robin Williams

  Economic, Canada Being Great, Economic Crisis

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• Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Going Away, Wish

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

  Magic Johnson

  Home, Self, People

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• The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  World, Consciousness

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• Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Powerful, Ascent, Noise

  Joseph Goebbels (1987). “Michael: a novel”, Amok Pr

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• Crisis precedes transformation.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Transformation

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• A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

  Adam Carolla

  Practice, People, Paper

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  War, Differences, Humanity

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s prophetic vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.

  Josh Fox

  Couple, Talking, Numbers

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Campaigns, Financial

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• This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

  Oliver DeMille

  Teamwork, Smart, Hard Work

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• Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating forces of economic upheaval, war and other crises? Or we pull together as families and communities to create a brighter future?

  Oliver DeMille

  War, Past, Community

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• If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.

  Ferdinand Lundberg

  Military, Men, Order

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• Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

  Robert Fulghum

  People, Imagination, Secret

  "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1986.

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• The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Media, People, Attention

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• I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Art, Thinking, People

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• For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

  Erin Brockovich

  Water, Deterioration, Clean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.

  Art Spiegelman

  Art, Thinking, Validation

  "In the Shadow of No Towers". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2004.

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• The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Athens, Deep Wounds

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Philippine education is in crisis

  Florencio Abad

  Philippines

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• It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leader, Times Of Crisis, Good Leader

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