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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.