Crisis Quotes - Page 5

• Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

  Jeannette Walls

  Needs, Littles, Helping

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

  Claire Danes

  Years, Midlife, Film

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• We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.

  George Wald

  Rest Of Life, Decision, Earth

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• Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

  Aesop

  Giving, Advice, Assistance

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.64, GENERAL PRESS

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• The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

  Raymond Williams

  Understanding, Humans, Can Do

  1958 Culture and Society, ch.3.

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• In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Believe, Nfl

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• Every little thing counts in a crisis.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Littles, Little Things

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

  Martha Beck

  Attitude, Optimistic, Opportunity

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• The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

  Mark McCormack

  Learning, Two, People

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• In every crisis there is a message.

  Susan L. Taylor

  African American, Messages

  "Earth Doesn’t Have Be Doomed Like Atlantis - We Can Change Course" by Andrew Lawler, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2015.

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• A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

  Bill Gates

  Events, Needs, Able

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

  Susan Ertz

  Book, Long, Giving

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• Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

  Michael Porter

  Inspirational, Leader, Needs

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• What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

  Peter Buffett

  Imagination, Mind, Problem

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• In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.

  Charlie Morton

  Preparation, Moments, Initiative

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• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  Iris Chang

  Hard Times, Racism, Racist

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• Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

  John Cusack

  Long, Investing, Financial

  Interview with Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. April 14, 2003.

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• I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

  Stanislav Grof

  Believe, Essentials, Tools

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• When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Arise

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• The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

  Gabe Paul

  Baseball, Famous Baseball, Great Things

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• Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

  Robert Collier

  Challenges, Future Happiness, Happiness And Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

  Christopher Lasch

  Order, Moral, Birth

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• Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Wrestling, Opportunity, Growth

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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• A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1962). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an Autobiography: With Musings on Recent Events in India”

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• A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Encounters, Kind

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