#crisis

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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#crisis #garbage #life #truth #understanding

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#cowards #crisis #eyes #great #grow

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#claims #communism #crisis #fact #in fact

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#crisis #great #great changes #habit #him

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. ↗

— George Crumb

#composers #creatures #crisis #earthly #face

So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business? ↗

— Ray Dalio

#community #crisis #does #financial #financial crisis

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#countries #crisis #developing #developing world #east

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#any #crisis #day #day to day #face

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#crisis #environmental #global #only #problem

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#battle #chance #crisis #game #life