Critical Situations Quotes

If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

I show up in a playoff game, I have my sideline sheet. I can't even spit plays out, I get so excited. I mean, you get nervous. These are critical, do-or-die situations. Third down and 1, Red Zone, what do I call? Two minute drill? Are we going to go no huddle? These are decisions that you wrestle with.

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.

Maybe it’s the other way around,” Jason suggested. “Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that’s when they’re needed most.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

I love pressure. I don't know why, but I love the pressure of, 'oh it's third-and-five' or it's the two-minute drill and someone has to make a play. I'm that guy.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

People don't understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day, those were the times when you were most on a high.

The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows . Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.

I've always thought we've done our best work when everything is on the line.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Every mission has life-or-death moments.

Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the difference.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

The supernatural world, the sci-fi world - they give you scenarios that can truly be life or death.