“I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.” JobsFacesGivenDifficultSpaceSituationIssuesTheoryToughCrisisFocusedInstanceMessRestoringTimes Of Crisis Author:Christine Lagarde
“Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do because it involves so many characters. But, again, you dont need to know all the details. Obviously the mainstays are there Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and heavily focused on. There are a ton of great characters, and a lot happens to them over the course of Infinite Crisis . Some change and evolve, others fall, but it really is about trying to bring everybody on stage. We probably have 90 percent of the DCU showing up, if not more but without losing focus on what the story is.” IfsKnowsNeedsTryingCharacterStoriesHappensFallCoursesDifficultWonderFocusStageLosingPercentInfiniteCrisisDetailsFocusedEvolveShowing UpGreat CharacterWonder WomanLosing Focus Author:Geoff Johns
“Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindStillsBookChoicesFallGamesHouseDifficultCan DoBehindsThis WorldRight NowComputerLosingIntelligentCrisisEntertainmentPublishingPublishersEmergenceBeginnersComputer GamesLosing MoneyPublishing House Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.” HelpingHandsPoliticalDifficultDecisionPartyStepsWeekMonthsDecidedCrisisSeriesSolveOutcomesOppositionDecision MakingEconomistSpectrumGreat DepressionPolitical SpectrumOpposition Parties Author:Barack Obama
“This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for [Barack] Obama it is extremely difficult to change now, to find a way to organize this banking system [differently].” WayFirstsDifficultPresidentCrisisBillsClintonDuesBarackOrganizeBankingBanking SystemPresident Bill ClintonPresident Ronald Reagan Author:Costa-Gavras
“Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.” Has BeensDifficultDangerousShadowDeterminationCrisisResponseCommittedCourageousSkillfulCourage And DeterminationDifficult Days Author:David McCullough
“We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.” EndsStatesDifficultGrowthSituationDutyEuropeWeakCrisisFranceUnemploymentMandatesDifficult Situations Author:Francois Hollande
“I ran for president because I wanted to help Lithuania and its people during a difficult time. My country was on the very edge of an economic crisis, and people were disappointed by the economic situation and the political elite. We all needed change and motivation to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome the difficulties.” PeopleCountryHelpingWantedPoliticalMotivationOrderDifficultPresidentEffortSituationEconomicNeededOvercomingDifficultyCrisisEdgesRanDisappointedElitesDifficult TimesEconomic CrisisLithuaniaNeeded Change Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't belong there. It's difficult to think of anything more private and of less public concern than what we choose to put into our bodies. It only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of those choices.” ThinkingWayMatterBodyChoicesForceDifficultPayConsequenceConcernCrisisBest WayRealmsRemoveObesityPublic HealthAlleviate Author:Radley Balko
“In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that.” TogetherOrderStrongDifficultDestinyClearEconomicCommunicationCrisisFocusedTechniqueWorking TogetherStaffGood LeaderGood LeadershipClear Communication Author:Reid Hoffman
“What the U.S. does is it continues to print money when the economic situation gets difficult. This is what happened in the last depression during the summer of 2008 when they tried to resolve the economic crisis by printing valueless money. This is the business privilege given to them at the famous conference of Bretton Woods in 1944 when the United States emerged as the superpower after Europe and the rest of the world, mainly Europe, that had collapsed because of the war.” WorldDoeWarStatesLastsGivenDifficultUnitedSituationUnited StatesHappenedEconomicSummerEuropeCrisisPrivilegeWoodsResolvePrintConferencesPrintingSuperpowerEconomic CrisisValueless Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksFeltDifficultPresidentTermDecisionSituationEconomyTeamNew YorkCrisisMovedShoesFinancialBarackPresident Barack ObamaFinancial CrisisDifficult SituationsFinancial System Author:Ron Suskind
“I believe that it is very difficult in the world of today to continue with G-8 only without taking in account the importance of Brazil, China, India, many in the world economy, because these countries are great consumers, large consumers, and we're also becoming great producers, and also because we were better prepared than the rich countries for the nowadays global crisis.” WorldBelieveCountryTodayI BelieveDifficultEconomyRichImportanceCrisisProducers Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“When my family moved from Ireland in the 70s, Britain was such a difficult place to be Irish. It was a decade of real social and economic upheaval in Britain. There were strikes, the three-day week, the oil crises, huge inflation, the winter of discontent and, what was it, four Prime Ministers? And relations between Britain and Ireland at that time were at an all-time low. I was born in the year of Bloody Sunday and of course the pub bombings happened in the mid-1970s.” RealDifficultWeekEconomicMy FamilyRelationCrisisMovedWinterSundayIrelandBloodyInflationDiscontent Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.” FeelsMayI CanFacesDifficultLosesHurtCrisisForgivingCalmTemperHystericalMasochismMasochistic Author:Emma Thompson
“The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.” IfsFactsWould BeDifficultPerspectiveCrisisFinancialSevereIndulgePredictableMagnitudeIndulge InFinancial CrisisSchadenfreude Author:Noam Chomsky
“Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.” FeelsMindTwoSelfSometimesDifficultFocusDepressionEthicsRootsBreathsCrisisIllnessBonesMental IllnessPhenomenonOverwhelmingCountingPreventingPsychiatric Author:Lauren Slater
“The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.” RunningFightingIndividualDifficultSituationWatchesDangerousPeriodsBattleJudgmentResourcesCrisisReactionsRunning AwayIndecisionAftermath Author:Richard M. Nixon
“One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis.” PeopleMadeHelpingUseDifficultDecisionCrisisFinancialFinancial CrisisHardworking Author:George W. Bush
“If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.” IfsNeedsFirstsGovernmentDifficultStepsIssuesRightsPolicySeriousCivilizationDiseaseFirst TimeCrisisPopulationAidsGenuineTreatedCivil RightsCuresIsolatedFederal GovernmentPlagueVirusesPublic PolicyCarrierDeadly Diseases Author:Mike Huckabee
“The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are - very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change.” RealityDifficultChallengesCitizensDemandCrisisBudgetsAdjusting Author:Kathleen Blanco
“I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.” ProblemWould BeDifficultCrisisComplexesFinancialBroadsMistakenHousingFinancial System Author:Ben Bernanke