Cherry Jones Quotes

I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis.

There are certain people who react well in life-threatening situations, and our military and our law enforcement and our first responders tend to be those types of folks.

Crisis is not a nine-to-five job... Crisis happens when you least expect it.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.

The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.

I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of exceeds passion - it's a vocation.... I obviously knew that there were certainly some challenges that I would be taking on both with the work and the politics. [But] I probably did not have the right expectation level with regard to the number and volume of crises that would occur.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?

In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.

Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.