“Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.” WeekNew YorkCrisisEmergenciesMayors Author:Rudy Giuliani
“There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.” ThinkingFeelsMomentsGuyBornWeekAdversityCrisisStartingEnthusiasmPlentyPulseRespiratory Author:James Taylor
“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
“I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.” ThinkingFeelsMayEnjoyWeekCoupleLetting GoMajorsCrisisMortalityQuartersSpontaneousGoing To WorkLife CrisisBelatedTurning 30 Author:Chris Pine
“Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.” WantKindLittlesSelfSecretWeekConsciousCrisisStrategyPaintFedsCantSelf ConsciousFed Up Author:Gerhard Richter
“I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.” IfsKnowsEnoughCareLastsFatherDoubtFocusWeekEventsDesignCreationHonorDaughterInfiniteCrisisCancerCreatorDon't CareAidsGods WillObligationMortalsI Don't CareGradesMy DaughterGood EnoughRemindersGod ExistsVastnessTsunamiClassmatesSpatialCancer Death Author:Eric Zorn
“Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.” WorldSaidWarLastsStrongEconomyWeekWorstTvsCrisisFundamentalsCampaignsWar Of The WorldsInterviewsAdsWorld War IiWorld War IMccainSuspendedSurrogates Author:Bill Maher
“I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is.” IfsThinkingTwoHappensPresidentHoursImagineWeekFiguresFairsCrisisResponseCurrentsImagine ThatPigsDocumentariesTwo WeeksBay Of Pigs Author:Barack Obama
“I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingOrderNextDifferencesStepsCasesToo MuchRiskWeekKeysTrumpQuietElectionCrisisFolksBe GoodWho We AreMaking A DifferenceRight WayUrgentStep UpSteps Forward Author:Reid Hoffman
“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
“Our relationship with sleep is currently in crisis, but we're also living in a golden age of sleep science - revealing all the ways in which sleep and dreams play a vital role in our decision-making, emotional intelligence, cognitive function, and creativity. Every week, new research reveals how vital sleep is to our health, happiness, job performance, and relationships.” DreamAgeSleepCreativityWeekEmotionalCrisisOur Relationship Author:Arianna Huffington
“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
“We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year” YearsMindEarthLastsNationsMoneyPowerfulWeekMonthsNeededCrisisWorkersProductiveGoodsLast YearProsperousGoods And Services Author:Barack Obama
“The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.” WeekSeriousBecomingEvidenceCrisisClimateClimate ChangeScientific Evidence Author:Al Gore
“Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.” TodayNextWeekFailureCrisisDisasterShrinksHeadlinesNext WeekFootnotes Author:Hal Borland
“While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.” LongPhilosophyValuesGoalBusinessCompanyStepsTeachTreeWeekEthicsFlowCrisisEnvironmentalManagersEmployeeAddressesCampsCashSan FranciscoSeminarsCash FlowYosemite Author:Yvon Chouinard