Crisis Quotes - Page 32

• In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Identity, Depth

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• There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

  Ethel Waters

  Battle, Spunk, Cry

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• The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophical

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• The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

  Dalai Lama

  Ambition, Weakness, Want

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• Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leader, Times Of Crisis

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• The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

  Ezra Klein

  Sacrifice, Political, Trading

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• Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Men, Ability, Situation

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Growing Up, Existential, Young

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't belong there. It's difficult to think of anything more private and of less public concern than what we choose to put into our bodies. It only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of those choices.

  Radley Balko

  Thinking, Choices, Body

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• The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moving, Doe, World

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• Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, 'Actually, this is pretty good.'

  Donald Richie

  Thinking, Years, Looks

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• High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Motivation, Learning

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• The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  War, Creativity, Thinking

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• The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

  Jay Weatherill

  Two, Issues, Water

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• Something good comes out of every crisis.

  Dave Pelzer

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• It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.

  Peter Mayle

  Moving, Laughing, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 25, 2015

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• The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Warrior, Men, Brain

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• Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Being Yourself, Feelings, Looks

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.90, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and broadcast your excitement to be alive.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Love Is, Forgiving, Alive

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.101, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Democracy, Soil

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• I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

  Rana Dasgupta

  Class, Wealth, Middle

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• Blessings are better than miracles. If you live your life from one miracle to the next, you will live from crisis to crisis. It's better to be blessed with good health than to always need divine healing. God's will is for us to walk in blessing.

  Andrew Wommack

  Blessed, Healing, Blessing

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• Incompetence is the true crisis.

  Albert Einstein

  Incompetence

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• Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Evil, Matter

  "Fatum und Geschichte" by Friedrich Nietzsche, April 1862.

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• For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

  Edith Wharton

  Strong, Blood, Years

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2054, Delphi Classics

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