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"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."

Frank Auerbach, German Artist

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"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."

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"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Crisis, Practice, Spiritual

"Stay in your boats, Dahra said. "We're still going to need food. Throw your fish onto the dock. I'll get Albert to send someone here to collect it. Then go back out, row up the coast a little ways, and camp out."Camp out? Quinn echoed."Yes!"You're serious."No, it's my idea of a joke, Quinn, Dahra snapped. "Pookie just coughed up a lung and fell over dead. You understand what I'm saying? I mean he coughed his actual lungs out of his mouth."

Michael Grant, American Author

Crisis, Urgency, Leadership, Survival

"I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

Crisis, Needs, Old, Question

"Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure."

John Conyers, American Politician

Crisis, Violence, World

"Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress."

Steven Magee, British Author

Crisis, Society, Danger, Health, Truth

"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."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Crisis, Danger, Opportunity, Awareness

"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Crisis, Spirit, Depression, Revolution, War

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

Crisis, Effect, Order, Rhetoric

"There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens."

John Conyers, American Politician

Crisis, Fact, Laws, Nation

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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Explore more quotes by Frank Auerbach

"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."

"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."

"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."

"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."

"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."

"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."

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