“I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.” IfsWorldWayTryingMeanDoeAbleMovingAsksConsciousnessFiguresCrisisScalesMoving ForwardConclusionEnlightenedExistentialScopeRight QuestionsExistential CrisisKnowledge Of The World Author:Elon Musk
“The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?” ThinkingSaidTwoNextAsksMistakeMoralImpossibleGenerationsDoorsRight NowCrisisSolveThese DaysResolveNext GenerationPlaywrightKnockingYounger GenerationMoral CourageNorwegiansIbsen Author:Al Gore
“Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks, how should the president respond? Now these are important parts of America's role in the world, but they are essentially reactive and tactical. The broader challenge is to lay down a longer-term strategy that endures after the crisis of the moment.” WorldShouldImportantMomentsAmericaAsksPresidentTermChallengesAttentionRolesBreakStreetsPolicyManagementCrisisStrategyLaysEndureCommandForeign PolicyEgyptRevoltBreak OutLibyaTacticalCrisis ManagementKiev Author:Fareed Zakaria
“In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"” YearsCareAsksCrisisClimate ChangeCliffsEuroArcticFiscal CliffEuro Crisis Author:Bill McKibben
“Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?” ThinkingKnowsDoneProblemAsksIdentityIntellectualCrisisErrorsWho We AreExistentialIdentity Crisis Book:Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
“People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's that the science runs ahead of the politics. Bioethics can alert people to something coming down the road, but it doesn't mean policy and politicians are going to pay attention. They tend to respond when there's an immediate crisis. The job of the ethicist, in some ways, is to warn or be prophetic. You can yell loudly, but you can't necessarily get everybody to leave the cinema, so to speak.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanProblemRunningJobsAsksPoliticsSpeakPayAttentionPolicyPoliticianEthicsCrisisPay AttentionCinemaDown The RoadProphetic Author:Arthur Caplan
“People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.” PeopleKnowsWantMatterAsksAcceptanceAskingCrisisSurrenderAddictMidlifeMidlife CrisisAsking Why Author:Kevin Sessums
“Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.” IfsKnowsDoeEndsStoriesTodayWantedMovingLife IsAsksGoes OnCrisisMoving ForwardAsk MeLife Goes OnHindiCatharsisCaravansHassanHindi Movie Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set
“We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?” WorldNeedsShouldMaySelfAsksNamesDemocracyRightsCenturyTaxesModelsCrisisBlowObviousVersionsRationalChineseProtestWorth ItAftermath18th CenturyPathology Author:Noah Feldman
“A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.” ThinkingAsksLeadershipLeaderAdviceCrisisTime To ThinkTrue Leader Author:Herbert Newton Casson
“We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?” WantMomentsBigsAsksGrowsAnswersGrowing UpEvolutionCrisisBig Questions Author:Paul Gilding