Crisis Quotes - Page 36

• It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Past, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Successful, Self, People

  Maltz, Maxwell Maltz, M.D. (1987). “Power Slf Img Psch”, Pocket

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• How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Comfort, Times Of Crisis, Use

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.

  Gordon Brown

  Should Have, Years, People

  "'Sometimes it takes a crisis': PM calls for biggest financial overhaul since 1944" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2008.

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• We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Civilization, Challenges, World

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• I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

  Moby

  Years, Midlife, Four

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

  Moby

  Midlife, Midlife Crisis, Thrust

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack on the social state. The hidden agenda here is that when students graduate with such high debts, they rarely choose a career in public service; instead, they are forced to go into the corporate sector, and I see these conditions, in some ways, as being very calculated and as part of a larger political strategy to disempower students.

  Henry Giroux

  Careers, Political, Way

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding the store during the financial crisis and every one of them was asleep at the switch.

  Carly Fiorina

  Agency, Class, People

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

  Neil Peart

  Records, Want, Compromise

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

  Jess Row

  Race, People, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about zero to almost five percent. But the mortgage crisis and the burgeoning credit card crisis are causing Americans to become wary of irresponsible debt.

  Denis Hayes

  Zero, Quality, Cards

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird

  Julia Stiles

  Art, Cutting, Bird

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• You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.

  Michael Lewis

  Arguing, Remember, States

  "The Big Short: author Michael Lewis on 'betting on Armageddon' during the global financial crisis; making of star-studded new film". Interview with Hayden Cooper, www.abc.net.au. January 14, 2016.

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• If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

  Satish Kumar

  Vision, Environmental, World

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

  Luke Temple

  Writing, Mind, Trying

  Interview with James Rickman, therumpus.net. June 30, 2014.

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• I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what it means to sacrifice, but mostly what it means to be alive, how to be a better person, how not to make the mistakes my parents had made. I guess that's what one might typically call a midlife crisis.

  Tod Goldberg

  Mistake, Mean, Sacrifice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Getting Older, Our Society

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.

  eL Seed

  Summer, Roots, Identity

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I understand that everyone around the world has the global economy crisis and the budgets on education are being cut and the first thing to go are the musical or arts programs and I definitely have to disagree with that.

  Sean Mackin

  Art, Cutting, Musical

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• The route for the refugees currently goes through Greece and the Balkans or through Italy; if there were a crisis in north-eastern Europe, Poland might just as well be affected. In this case we are dealing with mechanisms that we do not control. We need to change that.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Europe, Might, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.

  Tom Shadyac

  War, Believe, Hunger Poverty

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• Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.

  George Pattison

  Keys, Political, Atheism

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I feel I must acknowledge that gay people are, generally speaking, funnier, more self-sufficient, and better in crises and I should step aside and let them handle the business whenever it comes up.

  Thao Nguyen

  Gay, Self, People

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• And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em.

  Lauren Myracle

  Writing, Doors, Land

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