Quotes About Crisis

Continuous Partial Attention involves an artificial sense of constant crisis, of living in a 24/7, always-on world. It contributes to feeling stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated, and unfulfilled; it compromises our ability to reflect, to make decisions, and to think creatively.

Continuous Partial Attention involves an artificial sense of constant crisis, of living in a 24/7, always-on world. It contributes to feeling stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated, and unfulfilled; it compromises our ability to reflect, to make decisions, and to think creatively." Not

carrying on a conversation at dinner and texting under the table.... Continuous Partial Attention involves an artificial sense of constant crisis, of living in a 24/7, always-on world. It contributes to feeling stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated, and unfulfilled; it compromises our ability to reflect, to make decisions, and to think creatively.

Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

People can do things completely against their nature, completely. It's like some tiny earthquake comes roaring through your body and soul, and it's the only earthquake you'll ever feel. But it damages so much, cracks the foundations of your life forever.

Hell, sometimes it feels like the whole country is on fire. Like a constant conflagration is burning too close to all poor people. Shouldn't rich-ass America be taking care of everybody?

As the old saying goes, when seconds count the police are just minutes away.

What are you people talking about?" – Abigail "Nothing important. Just the end of the world as we know it, and for the record, I don't feel fine. Neither will you when it all comes slamming down on your head." – Zarek

Midway upon the journey of our life

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.

Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters — one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

A man could bear up under any temporary crisis if he had faith in the future.

Water boils most fiercely just before it disappears. And so it is, evidently, with human affairs.