crisis

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6394972	The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.	chinese crisis danger inspirational opportunity	John F. Kennedy
94b3fca	The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.	crazy crisis insanity	Hunter S. Thompson
ce06e7e	"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me."	cell crisis death prison revelation stuck-in-a-rut suicide	Franz Kafka
96a0ed4	Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.	crisis life thriving	Jeannette Walls
206abad	The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.	crisis modernity	Antonio Gramsci
bfb414f	When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.	crisis victims	Gregory Maguire
133d987	...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.	crisis life philosophy	Douglas Coupland
295a5ea	Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...	atheism capitalism causality commerce constitution crisis drugs economics economy force freedom government individual-rights jobs law liberty life love objective-law philosophy political-philosophy pursuit-of-happiness reason regulation rock-and-roll sex slavery society trade tyranny usa volition wealth	Ayn Rand
b6b6ce4	I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.	crisis garbage life truth understanding yourself	Jodi Picoult
6c89548	Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience.	1990s adventure bulgaria city-centre country crisis death eastern-europe europe european europeans night-club nightlife post-communist sofia travel	Bill Bryson
864dfcd	If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.	crisis economics keynes perfect-information	Robert Skidelsky
0398e5a	Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)	crisis interesting-perspection-of-life psychology	J.D. Robb
af82695	A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.	crisis	Michael Crichton
364a6f0	I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.	crisis distraction humour mindfulness self-deprecation thoughts worry	Marian Keyes
2f7f3b2	Shall I make you a cup of tea? He asked. It was the classic response to crisis practiced throughout these islands--in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. Emotional turmoil, danger, even disaster could be faced with far greater equanimity if the kettle was switched on. War has been declared! There's been a major earthquake! The stock market has collapsed! Oh really? Let me put the kettle on....	crises crises-solution crisis tea	Alexander McCall Smith
5c072e4	The moment when mortality, ephemerality, uncertainty, suffering, or the possibility of change arrives can split a life in two. Facts and ideas we might have heard a thousand times assume a vivid, urgent, felt reality. We knew them then, but they matter now. They are like guests that suddenly speak up and make demands upon us; sometimes they appear as guides, sometimes they just wreck what came before or shove us out the door. We answer them, when we answer, with how we lead our lives. Sometimes what begins as bad news prompts the true path of a life, a disruptive visitor that might be thanked only later. Most of us don't change until we have to, and crisis is often what obliges us to do so. Crises are often resolved only through anew identity and new purpose, whether it's that of a nation or a single human being.	crisis identity love mortality	Rebecca Solnit
d90fcc7	It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him--the winning of a democratic election.	britain british-empire cold-war conservative-party-uk crisis democracy elections history imperialism power russia soviet-union time truth united-states winston-churchill	Christopher Hitchens
904c0e3	Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.	crisis loneliness relationship	Richard Llewellyn
d471e56	All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always.	crisis destruction life nature pattern	James S.A. Corey
0c4ad2e	I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.	crisis emotion panic	Erik Larson
8272e60	Quote by Robert, a garcon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves--though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave. /293	crisis life lucidity	Adam Gopnik

6394972

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

chinese crisis danger inspirational opportunity

John F. Kennedy

94b3fca

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

crazy crisis insanity

Hunter S. Thompson

ce06e7e

"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me."

cell crisis death prison revelation stuck-in-a-rut suicide

Franz Kafka

96a0ed4

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

crisis life thriving

Jeannette Walls

206abad

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

crisis modernity

Antonio Gramsci

bfb414f

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

crisis victims

Gregory Maguire

133d987

...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

crisis life philosophy

Douglas Coupland

295a5ea

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

atheism capitalism causality commerce constitution crisis drugs economics economy force freedom government individual-rights jobs law liberty life love objective-law philosophy political-philosophy pursuit-of-happiness reason regulation rock-and-roll sex slavery society trade tyranny usa volition wealth

Ayn Rand

b6b6ce4

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

crisis garbage life truth understanding yourself

Jodi Picoult

6c89548

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience.

1990s adventure bulgaria city-centre country crisis death eastern-europe europe european europeans night-club nightlife post-communist sofia travel

Bill Bryson

864dfcd

If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.

crisis economics keynes perfect-information

Robert Skidelsky

0398e5a

Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)

crisis interesting-perspection-of-life psychology

J.D. Robb

af82695

A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.

crisis

Michael Crichton

364a6f0

I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.

crisis distraction humour mindfulness self-deprecation thoughts worry

Marian Keyes

2f7f3b2

Shall I make you a cup of tea? He asked. It was the classic response to crisis practiced throughout these islands--in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. Emotional turmoil, danger, even disaster could be faced with far greater equanimity if the kettle was switched on. War has been declared! There's been a major earthquake! The stock market has collapsed! Oh really? Let me put the kettle on....

crises crises-solution crisis tea

Alexander McCall Smith

5c072e4

The moment when mortality, ephemerality, uncertainty, suffering, or the possibility of change arrives can split a life in two. Facts and ideas we might have heard a thousand times assume a vivid, urgent, felt reality. We knew them then, but they matter now. They are like guests that suddenly speak up and make demands upon us; sometimes they appear as guides, sometimes they just wreck what came before or shove us out the door. We answer them, when we answer, with how we lead our lives. Sometimes what begins as bad news prompts the true path of a life, a disruptive visitor that might be thanked only later. Most of us don't change until we have to, and crisis is often what obliges us to do so. Crises are often resolved only through anew identity and new purpose, whether it's that of a nation or a single human being.

crisis identity love mortality

Rebecca Solnit

d90fcc7

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him--the winning of a democratic election.

britain british-empire cold-war conservative-party-uk crisis democracy elections history imperialism power russia soviet-union time truth united-states winston-churchill

Christopher Hitchens

904c0e3

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

crisis loneliness relationship

Richard Llewellyn

d471e56

All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always.

crisis destruction life nature pattern

James S.A. Corey

0c4ad2e

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

crisis emotion panic

Erik Larson

8272e60

Quote by Robert, a garcon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves--though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave. /293

crisis life lucidity

Adam Gopnik