“I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!” LittlesEyeFunSexGrowsEmotionalCrisisCleanFolksLegsStrangerMessyBaggageHaircutsHaving SexLife CrisisMid Life CrisisEmotional BaggageNew Haircut Author:Ed Robertson
“We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.” GrowsIndustryAuthorityCrisisClimateHostile Author:Kenneth P. Green
“I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early albums - they grow out of some of his difficulties with Suze Rotolo, and "Hard Rain," people say it had to do with the Cuban missile crisis - probably not. He denied it. I believe him, but it certainly had to do with the time.” PeopleBelieveHardBigsSongI BelieveGrowsFansRainDifficultyCrisisAlbumsDeniedBobDylanMissilesCubanCuban Missile Crisis Author:Cass Sunstein
“Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.” KnowsLooksSometimesGrowsEasyGrowthAbilityCompanyKnow HowFocusEconomicExampleBalanceAdvantageCrisisMaking MoneyLandscapeAssetsSheetsSailingAccelerateCompetitive AdvantageEconomic CrisisLiquidityBalance Sheets Author:Reid Hoffman
“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.” GrowsGrowthNatureFoodCrisisSolveShrinks Book:Ecofeminism Source: Ecofeminism
“Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.” IfsWayLittlesRealEndsCountryWould BeGrowsGrowthWealthLossResultsRichWiseEconomicCarCostBenefitsCrisisPainfulInevitableThings To DoExtrasGlobal WarmingConsumptionDelayPromotingReconciliationExceedEconomic GrowthBiodiversityEnd ResultsRich CountriesReal Wealth Author:Herman E. Daly
“When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.” MenTryingFacesTurnsGrowsWhiteConditionsFiguresFitCrisisMaskTyrantsConventionalImpressWhite ManHollowPosingDummy Author:George Orwell
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.” InspirationalCharacterShowsEyeLastsStrongGrowsLeadershipSleepCourageHuman NatureHeroWeakCrisisOccasionsCowardLife And Love Author:Brooke Westcott
“I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure - like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.” PeopleWantWholeHelpingHomeGrowsCommunityBusinessColorRight NowCrisisGet BackUrbanMortgageLove MakingMortgage Crisis Author:Magic Johnson
“Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.” YearsCountryNationsGrowsQuietResourcesStrongerCrisisPresidentialRelyInfluentialThrough The YearsRely Upon Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.” ThinkingFallGrowsForeverGrowing UpSuccessfulGreaterCrisisPatternsMaturityTransitionJoyfulRebirthAccompany Author:M. Scott Peck
“It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live - and grow - withoiut such a fundamental necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could end this crisis.” IfsThinkingChildrenEndsAmericaGrowsCommunityCrisisFundamentalsHungerHungryReach Out Author:Tim McGraw
“The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.” WaySoulForceGrowsBehindsSituationLandDrawsCrisisLongingStuckHeightToysWornTerrifiedHuntersWorn OutHunted Author:Alberto Villoldo
“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