It’s true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
Collaborative decision-making is very poor in crises.
If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.
Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?
It is true that Britain and its institutions have survived past crises, but often this was because those in charge, at a certain point, snapped out of the stupor of latent optimism, recognised the dangers circling the nation and acted.
There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.
The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.
Lawmakers imagine they can be political heroes by voting for budgets that slash scientific research by 20 percent, but they inhibit our ability to respond to health crises.
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
I’ve lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
Crisis and pressure help foster change – that’s why I’m not so pessimistic towards crises.
Sci-fi novels are concerned with problems faced by all of humanity. Crises in sci-fi mostly threaten humanity as a whole. This is a unique and treasurable trait inherent in the genre – that the human race is perceived as a single entity, undivided.
Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.
Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.
Fashion can really give you an identity if you’re looking for one and I think the more people that know that, the less identity crises we’ll have in the world.
Throughout Pixar’s history, we’ve had major meltdowns and crises. It’s happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn’t work, and you start all over again.
Our response to crises cannot be adding more and more police funding.
When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.
Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain’s inability to maintain its role.
I’m really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don’t, and in how the human psyche responds.
Russians clearly perceive America’s global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
People are not perfect… very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they’ve had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.
Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.
It’s impossible to predict crises – or to control them once they hit – but you can absolutely prime yourself to ride them out as best as possible.
Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
We as a country are very good at responding to acute, short-term crises. When the crisis becomes chronic, we tend to withdraw.
If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both national democracy and global governance will continue to be rocked by crises.
Even boredom has its crises.
I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.
Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China’s own development but also limiting the progress of all of human civilization.
Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.’s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.
And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
I was elected to solve problems, and I don’t think it’s conservative to have bad roads; I don’t think it’s conservative to have bad schools. I don’t think it’s conservative to have to go through budget crises every two years. So I’m taking the difficult issues straight on. That’s what I was elected to do.
I think I’m still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes – war, uprising, famine, refugee crises – and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.
The nation of 2019, exponentially wealthier, appears to have a fraction of its former self-belief and little faith in its capacity to solve the latest in a long line of housing crises that stretch back to the 18th century.
Consumers around the world are more aware of the multiple global crises we face than ever before, thanks to information found on the Internet.
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
Turkey is a warning: democracy is precious but fragile. It underlines how rights and freedoms are often won at great cost and sacrifice but can be stripped away by regimes exploiting national crises.
Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.
