“Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.” WayNeedsWellsChildrenWould BeOrderParentAbilityRoomsMinutesMessagesTrainingAreasDirectCleanDisasterAlternativesHuman ConditionFoundersInterfereEmbarrassedNeed YouEffectivenessJohnsonMessyVisitingShoutingI Need YouYour Room Author:Ben Yagoda
“America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.” PeopleWorldSelfAmericaPoliticalUnited StatesEconomicLandCitizensLuckyAreasRegardDisasterArroganceIsolationSelf SufficiencySufficiencyPromised LandPushy Author:Alison Lurie
“I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.” ThinkingWantNeedsCountryHateGunAreasI HateDisasterNra Author:Eric Bolling
“It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular now, I think what sets this apart is this marriage and this family dynamic, and this way of revealing that people in positions of power or who have public careers are also real people. They have children and lives, and they have to deal with all of the things that everybody else does.” PeopleThinkingWayChildrenDoeWarRealShowsPoliticalDealsCareersPositionAreasDisasterZoneRevealingClichePosition Of PowerWar ZonesReally Popular Author:Tim Daly
“Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.” WayWellsNaturalNumbersBirdAreasGardenEnvironmentalRatePopulationHarmDisasterReasonableIntroducingRabbitsIntroductionNestsPredatorDevastatedStaggeringWeaselsFerretsKiwi Author:Bee Dawson
“The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.” LongSeemsMightRunningCitiesHalfCuttingEconomicCitizensTaxesAreasUnionsPatternsPopulationFollowingDisasterAdministrationProductiveLong RunsMayorsDetroit Author:Thomas Sowell
“Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history.” WayWantImportantHardPainAmericaChoicesNaturalLevelsDealsSeaWorstPolicyProjectsAreasImportant ThingsCurrentsVariousBillionsDisasterMeritEngineeringInactionLouisianaNatural DisasterGrandioseTrespassing Author:Douglas Brinkley
“The European economy is collapsing! The trans-Atlantic region is a disaster area in terms of economy.” TermEconomyAreasDisasterRegionsTrans Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.” PeopleWritingHas BeensCountryFactsHomeNaturalMillionsFivePeriodsAreasWideDisasterOur CountryCoastColumnsNatural Disaster Author:Jo Bonner
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.” PeopleHumansLittlesArtSelfYoungUsedArtistHateCreativityCreativeModernFieldsArt IsAreasI HateLeavingDisasterAdvertisingObsessedAmbitiousHuman HistoryGraffitiModern ArtSelf ObsessedStreet ArtThings I HateWall And PieceGraffiti ArtGraffiti ArtistPeople Leaving Author:Banksy