“You get to know who you really are in a crisis.”

Variant: What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe ittake a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Source: Handle with Care

Interview to the Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzcbXi1Tkk About the quote: Emanuel was not the first to express this idea, as pointed out in a 2009 New York Times Magazine article https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02FOB-onlanguage-t.html. However this statement - which proposed a way the Obama administration could actually harness the chaos of the Financial Crisis of 2008 - became a frequently-repeated slogan https://www.forbes.com/2008/11/24/global-crisis-management-lead-management-cx_snj_1124joni.html#1ac549f65e5e for many economists, policy makers and business people who sought to improve the world&#x27;s financial and economic systems.<br> / 2000s

When a journalist asked whether she believed the election had thrust the country deeper into political instability. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/asia/matriarchs-duel-for-power-threatens-to-tilt-bangladesh-off-balance.html (January 15, 2014)

Source: Baby Proof

Source: John Maynard Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009), Ch. 1 : What Went Wrong?

Introduction to "We Will All Go Together When We Go"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)

On the secret of his good health - &quot;TB Joshua Shares Secrets Of His Good Health&quot; http://www.premiumtimesng.com/letter-to-the-editor/174274-letter-t-b-joshua-shares-secrets-good-health.html Premium Times, Nigeria (January 5 2015)

Source: 2021, Response to COP26 (November 2021)