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.
Interpretation
A crisis offers a unique opportunity for swift action and significant progress.
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking decisive action during times of crisis. It suggests that crises present opportunities for change and improvement, and that individuals should seize these moments to maximize their potential for growth and transformation.
In practice
In a team meeting discussing how to tackle the recent challenges faced by the company.
Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished on linear economic principles. We need a transition to circular economic principles and practice.
There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.
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