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“It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.”

Helping Scene Disease Crisis Victim Insight Myth Defense Recognition Treatment Submit Crash Spontaneous Alcoholics

Author:Vernon Johnson

“I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.”

Made Responsibility Support Groups Crisis International Primaries Minorities Treatment Adequate Recommendations Kosovo

Author:Emma Bonino

“If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.”

Ifs Hero Crisis Ships Rise Above Rise Above It

Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.”

War Humanity Sides Technology Negative Crisis Succession Atrocities Cultural Exchange

Author:Abbe Pierre

“To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.”

People Men Play Individual Parent Audience Identity Changed Judging Hero Majors Crisis Institutions Philosopher Psychological Magazines Defined Peers Disturbance Identity Crisis

Book:Dice Man

Source: Dice Man

“Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.”

Years Three Gone Crisis Forgiving Financial Executives Jail Fraud Three Years Pointing Forgive Me Horrific Financial Crisis

Author:Charles Ferguson

“A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus. You will never know down here that Christ is all you need until Christ is all you have left. You will never be able to tell the world for sure that He will do in a crisis unless you learn how to live in a crisis.”

Knows World Needs Doe Character Able Christian Jesus Left Christ Attitude Tests Crisis Preacher Blockades

Author:Lester Roloff

“Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.”

Today Party Security Calling Protect Conflict Concern Crisis Notes Humanitarian Statements Massive Council Civilians Security Council Darfur Ceasefire

Author:Jan Egeland

“The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.”

Two War Able Purpose Nations Cases Weapons Pressure Crisis Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Aggravation Diffusion

Author:Herman Kahn

“The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.”

Crisis Times Of Crisis Life Crisis Mid Life Crisis

Author:Jay Kay

“There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported people in times of crisis and need. Whenever we lose a strengthening element in society, we need to replace it with alternative systems as quickly as possible. Befriending schemes are a crucial part of this process, because they fill the gap that social erosion has left in the lives of so many vulnerable people.”

“We don't get offered crises, they arrive.”

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Book:Cross sections from a decade of change

Source: Cross sections from a decade of change

“Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this practical, artistic approach.”

“One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.”

Inspirational Ideas Moments Motivational Opportunity History Lessons Crisis Mainstream Margins

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.”

Political Black Development Crisis Structure Progressive Multiracial

Book:Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader

Source: Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader

“Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.”

May Moments Interest Attention Media Produce Research Gun Crisis Shooting Intensity Gun Control Short Lived

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy”

Able Opportunity Growth Economy Pride Overcoming Crisis Financial Seeking Available Asian Unprecedented Financial Crisis

Author:Zhu Rongji

“Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate. ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine.”

Use Care Goal Steps Clear Economic Increase Crisis Medicine Democrat Burden Debate Significant Health Care Taxpayers Scrutiny Economic Crisis Socialized Medicine

Author:Jim DeMint

“The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.”

Thinking World States Past Situation Crisis Currents Planning Evolve Urban Design Same Thinking

Author:Albert Einstein

“Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.”

“If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.”

Source: The Essential Ken Wilber

“We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.”

Order Causes Waiting Justice Deals Poverty Crisis Social Justice Illness Heal Our Society Causes Of Poverty

Author:Pope Francis

“Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.”

Littles Two Reason Born Pleasure Groups Drug Tragedy Crisis Currents Accidents Alcohol Substance Categories Divided Items Phony Cannabis Classification

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.”

Helping Christian Spirit Church Levels Holy Authority Crisis Theology Holy Spirit Sole Inward Powerlessness Dogmatic Recourse

Author:James K. Baxter

“The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.”

“It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.”

Personality Despair Losing Crisis Depth Rescue Complacency Millennials

Author:Stanley Hoffmann

“Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

Doe Pain Individual Consciousness Marriage Crisis Memories Dreams Reflections Without Pain

Author:Carl Jung

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

Inspirational Needs Leader Crisis Agendas Good Leader

Author:Michael Porter

“One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.”

Way Home Support Listening Fine Musician Sick Balls Crisis One Way Gigs Stepfathers

Author:Mary Lou Williams

“What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.”

Light Depends Shadow Difficulty Crisis

Book:Concise Survey of the Bible

Source: Concise Survey of the Bible

“Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.”

Belief Social Differences Religious Moral Policy Resources Crisis Significant Despite Our Time Urgent Religious Belief Advocating Public Policy Invaluable

Author:Richard Land

“This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.”

States Crisis Accidents Decades Nuclear Handle Japan Maximum Tsunami Quake

Author:Naoto Kan

“The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.”

World Way Years War Situation Crisis Plant Currents Nuclear War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Severe Earthquakes Tsunami Current Situation Nuclear Plants

Author:Naoto Kan

“In every crisis there is a message.”

Messages Crisis African American

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.”

May Ends Cases Acceptance Words Of Wisdom Battle Normal Research Concern Crisis Candidates Over It Paradigm Emergence

Book:The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

“Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in myself. How can a mere financial crisis compare to that? The Generative Mystery cannot go bankrupt. It is not subject to scarcity. We never run out of God.”

World Love Running Creativity Grace Mystery Subjects Crisis Mere Financial Caring God Love Compare Recognizing Scarcity Financial Crisis Primacy Spaciousness Presence Of Love

Author:David Spangler

“While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.”

Long Philosophy Values Goal Business Company Steps Teach Tree Week Ethics Flow Crisis Environmental Managers Employee Addresses Camps Cash San Francisco Seminars Cash Flow Yosemite

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”

Inspirational Action Community Creative Issues Direct Crisis Tension Consistently Direct Action Creative Tension

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.”

Inspirational Action Purpose Situation Doors Direct Crisis Negotiation Direct Action Creative Tension

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.”

Men Character Time Religion Fit Tests Crisis Command Emergencies Times Of Crisis

Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.”

Happens Time Fighting Deals Technology Society Conditions Effects Emotional Expression Solutions Crisis Response Western Things Happen Buttons Quarrels Reliance Impatient

Author:Dalai Lama

“All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.”

People Crisis Coming Out Noticer

Book:The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective

Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective

“I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.”

People Thinking Important Problem Political Force Lines United Effort Overcoming Crisis Debt Greek Addresses Competitiveness

Author:Lucas Papademos

“Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.”

Country America Poverty Economic Development Crisis Financial Prosperity Russia Latin Asia Latin America Financial Crisis Globalisation

Author:Anna Lindh

“Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?”

Heard Crisis Phrases Midlife Midlife Crisis

Author:Janet Maslin

“Regardless of what crisis or complexity may be threatening to engulf your life, God is at work. You may not see it, but you need to know it’s true. And He’s not just doing one or two or a few things in that situation. He is doing a thousand or more things.”

Knows Needs May Two Situation Thousand Crisis Complexity Threatening

Book:The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

Source: The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

“Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.”

Source: Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business

“Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!”

Religious Sin Crisis Adam Adam And Eve Midlife Midlife Crisis

Author:Jonathan Edward Caldwell

“You really must stop acting Like a 20-year-old, gold plated In a midlife crisis You just graduated Happy 60th”

Years Acting Gold Crisis Birthday Midlife Midlife Crisis

Author:John Walter Bratton

“This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.”

Attitude Europe Crisis Agreement Stubborn Netherlands

Author:Gerhard Schroder

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