“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
“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensMightYoungCareersCrisisAmbitiousHungMight Have BeenPrematureMisplacedMidlifeMidlife Crisis Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.” PeopleYoungLostRiskGenerationsEconomicCrisisWestCatastropheEbolaWest Africa Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.” PeopleLongEndsReasonTodayYoungSocialNumbersPaySecurityFineTomorrowEuropeCrisisFasterRisingJapanSchemesOld PeopleSocial SecurityPensionRatiosPonzi Scheme Author:Milton Friedman
“The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.” YoungHappeningsCrisisProtestWarning Author:J. William Fulbright
“I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore.” FeelsYoungEnjoyGrowing UpGrowingCrisisExistentialExistential Crisis Author:Natasha Lyonne
“When we were young, there weren't very many smart people in the investment world. You should have seen the people in the bank trust departments. Now, there are armies of smart people at private investment funds, etc . If there were a crisis now, there would be a lot more people with a lot of money ready to take advantage.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldWould BeYoungReadySmartAdvantageShould HaveArmyCrisisInvestmentDepartmentEtcFundLots Of MoneySmart People Author:Charlie Munger
“It's a tale of redemption. It's a tale of a girl who is going on a journey, who makes mistakes as most young people do... the credit card companies love sending you credit cards so you exceed your limit and they can charge you interest. And this is a girl who overcomes her problems and figures a way out of her financial crisis, and hopefully the world will do the same thing.” PeopleWorldWayProblemYoungGirlInterestMistakeCompanyJourneyFiguresLimitsOvercomingCrisisFinancialCreditTalesCardsRedemptionHopefullyMaking MistakesExceedCredit CardFinancial Crisis Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.” PeopleMayAbleYoungArtistCitiesImpossibleHappenedWorstSpecialNew YorkBecomingDoctorsCrisisNew York CityWorst ThingsHousingYoung ArtistsHousing Crisis Author:Juan Enriquez
“One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - yet mass incarceration tends to be categorized as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue (or crisis).” MenYoungThreeJusticeIssuesRightsMassCrisisPrisonCriminalsCivil RightsAfrican AmericanJailJustice SystemCriminal JusticeIncarcerationParoleCriminal Justice SystemRacial JusticeMass IncarcerationProbation Author:Michelle Alexander
“Students will want to address the issues that they have a passion for, but I think that the challenge to this generation is the challenge of the climate crisis. Young people bring more enthusiasm, knowledge and sense of urgency on that issue. This is as planet they will inherit, they have a responsibility for it as well, and part of that responsibility is to urge people in power to make the right decisions about how we go forward.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsYoungPassionChallengesDecisionResponsibilityIssuesGenerationsStudentsPlanetsCrisisClimateEnthusiasmAddressesUrgesUrgencyThis GenerationRight DecisionSense Of UrgencyMake The Right Decision Author:Nancy Pelosi
“For sure I see so much in Sudan that is wonderful, normal life - young entrepreneurs starting up NGO projects, kids mucking around and being kids. Everything else that happens in normal life in any part of the world, and we never get that in our media coverage. We only talk about Sudan once it's in crisis, so we end up with a distorted sense of what daily life is like for a lot of people.” PeopleWorldEndsHappensKidsYoungLife IsWonderfulMediaNormalProjectsCrisisEntrepreneurStartingDaily LifeLife Is LikeCoverageNormal LifeSudanBeing A KidYoung EntrepreneursStarting UpMedia Coverage Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.” BelieveFactsYoungMotherDiesFatherOne DayPhilosophicalCrisisMortals Author:Lana Del Rey
“As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.” KnowsRealDoneYoungTerribleEasierCrisisDeeperPerformersLet It GoGreat TimesPlaying Someone Author:Claire Danes
“Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.” PeopleWorldHeartArtYoungPoetryOrderForceSocialChangePowerfulConsciousnessMusicPowerCarWallArt IsSkinsCrisisDanceUncertaintyUncertainExplosionsSocial OrderWorld MusicStranglingBreaking Away Author:Luis J. Rodriguez
“[Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore.” KnowsInspirationAbleYoungMotivationHonorPromiseGainsWeightHotCrisisOptimisticPoundsCherishFlashRest In PeaceCumulativeNewlywedsSnoringLife CrisisMid Life CrisisHot Flashes Author:Jenna McCarthy