Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Incompetence is the true crisis."
Crisis quotes
Crisis
262 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling."
Ryan Reynolds
Actor
"Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up."
Raymond Williams
Cultural Critic, Writer
"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model
"Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity."
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"The world system is coming to the structural crisis"
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"The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness."
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"Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox."
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"I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen."
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"Crisis precedes transformation."
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"Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis."
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"You get to know who you really are in a crisis."
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"Crises precede transformation."
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"Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?"
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"When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?"
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"Every little thing counts in a crisis."
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"To borrow a phrase from my friend Erskine Bowles on the Fiscal Commission, we are the healthiest looking horse in the glue factory. That means America is still a step ahead of the European nations who are confronting a debt crisis, of Japan that's in its second lost decade."
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"We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment."
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"Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis."
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"American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D."
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"At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!"
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"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
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"The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis."
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"The crisis is the price for the capitalist system"
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"If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road."
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