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Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems

“To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.”

Source: The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

“Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.”

Moments Problem Opportunity Force Creativity Focus Crisis Positivity Norm Ignite

Author:Sam Cawthorn

“I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.”

Ifs Moments Crisis Panic Bonding

Author:Bill Pullman

“...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it.”

Giving Moments Sacrifice Crisis Tested Defining Cupboards Defining Moments

Author:Lynn G. Robbins

“Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.”

Wells May Littles Moments Drink Crisis Remains Wine Glasses Gentleman Catastrophe Champagne Wine Glass Vineyards Drinking Wine Drinking Champagne Little Moments Champagne Drinking

Author:Paul Claudel

“I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.”

Believe Art Moments Lasts Culture I Believe Art Is Crisis Decades Resistance Aggressive Renewal Succession Stagnation Prerogative Rupture

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“May future generations look back on our work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great crisis, stood up to their politicians, the opinion-makers, and the establishment, and saved their country.”

Men Looks May Country Moments Opinion Generations Politician Men And Women Crisis Saved Makers Establishment Future Generation Stood Up

Author:Ron Paul

“I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me. A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose. I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.”

People Ifs Years Soul Moments Bits Acting Break Years Ago Decided Crisis Expected Living My Life Soul Searching

Author:Adelaide Kane

“In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.”

Want Needs Moments Body Imagination Race Crisis Defeat Quitting Crucial Penalties Crucial Moments

Author:Derek Ibbotson

“In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.”

Mind Ends Moments Dream Decision Vision Risk Innovation Crisis Absence Risk-taking Pettiness

Author:Peter Senge

“I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We're in crisis and we're dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?”

Ifs World Self Moments Silence Honest Crisis Islam Pity Ice Being Honest God Love Islamic Reformation Self Pity Conspiring

Author:Irshad Manji

“When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?”

Moments Written Generations Crisis Remembered Right Thing Our Time

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.”

“I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.”

Feels Years Two Moments Moving Wife Yoga Weight Crisis Two Years Something New Lifting Cheesy Ruts Midlife Biking Midlife Crisis Bmw Weight Lifting

Author:Brad Meltzer

“In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.”

Moments Crisis Prepared Preparation Initiative

Author:Charlie Morton

“Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.”

Ifs Thinking Way Moments Use Nations Ability Shapes Crisis Agendas Making Changes Franklin Times Of Crisis

Author:Pete du Pont

“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

“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

“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?”

Want Moments Bigs Asks Grows Answers Growing Up Evolution Crisis Big Questions

Author:Paul Gilding

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