“Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.” YoungStageCrisisMarketingQuartersSchemesStages Of LifeLife Crisis Author:Jill Lepore
“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
“There's a difference between just gaining access to a commodity as opposed to a spirit that allows us to live a life of love and justice, that when crisis and catastrophe hits you, that the biggest mansion in the world is not going to help you. If you don't have anybody who loves you, if you don't have any God who cares for you, that you're not going to have what it takes to move to the next stage in your life.” IfsWorldHelpingCareMovingSpiritNextDifferencesJusticeStageLove YouCrisisAccessCommodityCatastropheWho CaresMansionsCare For You Author:Cornel West
“...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.” PeopleNeedsMeanSpiritualMovingBeliefChallengesBreakPracticeOur LivesStageDevelopmentLetting GoCrisisPersonal DevelopmentFamiliarCyclesCrossroadsSpiritual PracticeAdoptingStages Of LifeLife Crisis Author:Caroline Myss
“A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.” WayChildrenCertainEnergyGrowthChallengesWalksDealsSituationStageEventsAchievementAnxietyAdultsNegativeMirrorsCrisisResponseInstanceMasteryNew LifeFeedbackPredictableCopingSmall ChildNew ChallengesRegressionNew SituationsNew Energy Author:T. Berry Brazelton
“When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.” MenWorldFocusStageIllusionConcernCrisis Book:Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s
“... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.” PersonsDoeStageOughtCrisisPhotographerPrivilegeStealingLuxuryGrantedThieves Author:Subcomandante Marcos
“All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences.” MenMatterWantedUsedOrderJusticeAliveProgressStageHe ManConsequenceCrisisInternationalCriminalsEtcNormAtrocitiesOrderlyApocalypticCrusades Author:Edward Said
“I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.” WorldDoeGivenHealingFictionStageSpeechCrisisAround The WorldImmigrantsDocumentariesStood Up Author:George Saunders
“At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going to confront a crisis from which we cannot return. The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.” PeopleFirstsWaterTakenStageReturnMountainSolutionsCrisisTablesCome UpDroppingMinerals Author:Arundhati Roy
“I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.” IfsThinkingShouldSchoolNextLeftEffortWeekStageFiguresCoupleKingsThirdsCrisisProductivityLegacyProductiveAdolescenceEasterLutherWrapsMemorialMemorial DayMidlifeMidlife Crisis Author:Chris Crutcher
“The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.” MenStatesWould BeAmericaDealsModernStageProduceHugePrejudiceCrisisDemocraticChaosSocialismAbsurdRealizationOrganizedGreat MenCollectivesWarningSocialistAttemptingFranklinGreat DepressionLingeringNew Deal Author:H. G. Wells
“Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.” NextGrowthNaturalPlansStageDesignPlanetsEvolutionBirthLimitsCrisisPatternsGentleEthicalTransitionPhasesFiniteFacilitate Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard