Divya Dutta Quotes

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis?

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, 'stuck' person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

I will forever be fascinated by how people deal with adversity, how people react in moments of crisis, or how people behave when life gets uncomfortable.

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.

The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.

Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.

The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.