Trauma Management Quotes

If the result is an intention, so what was my intention if I got the injury? ~ Giedrius Svetkauskas

The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas. ~ Fauja Singh

To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things." (p. 202) ~ Bill Gaultiere

But you're stuck filming crap now." Hal snorted. "Chased by monsters? Better be damn good
at running."
"And exactly how do you get hurt filming a landscaping show?" Taggart retorted.
"If it can't kill us, we don't film it," Jane said, to stop the fighting before it could start. "There's
a lot of dangerous flora and fauna in Pittsburgh and it doesn't stay beyond the Rim. It comes into
people's backyards and sets up shop. We teach our viewers how to deal with it, but it means we
have to actually get close enough to get hurt."
"Deal with, as in kill?" Nigel seemed flabbergasted.
"This isn't Earth. These aren't endangered species. This morning we were dealing with a very
large strangler vine in a neighborhood with lots of children. There's no way to 'move' it to
someplace where it isn't a danger, especially while it's actively trying to kill anything that
stumbles into its path. Pets. Children. Automated lawnmowers."
"That one is always amusing to watch but it always ends badly for the lawnmower," Hal said. ~ Wen Spencer

The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson. ~ Emily M. Danforth

Traditional project management focuses on task-level details and loses sight of the benefits projects aim to deliver. ~ Terry Schmidt

Time is the greatest innovator. ~ Francis Bacon

Flashlight beams danced crazily ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage. ~ C. K. Prahalad

Good classroom management is the art of dealing with problems positively and looking for solutions together so that everyone is involved and willing to find a remedy. ~ Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state. ~ Stefan Molyneux

Fun fact: when Microsoft asked their users what they wanted added to Office, they found 90% of the requested features were already there. ~ Des Traynor

A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun. ~ Gerry Geek

THE PURPOSE OF this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom, however, your brain must engage on some consistent basis with all your commitments and activities. You must be assured that you're doing what you need to be doing, and that it's OK to be not doing what you're not doing. ~ David Allen

This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful to admit or even to feel. It is an account of the altered states that trauma induces, which make it possible to survive a life-threatening event but impair the capacity to feel fear, and worse still, impair the ability to love. (292) ~ Jessica Stern

A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage. ~ Sunday Adelaja

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do. ~ Evan Davis

In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language. ~ Harry Markowitz

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after. ~ Aristotle.

The paradox of change is that while everyone says they want change, not many people actually like it, and even less want to lead it. ~ Sean A. Culey

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ~ Paul Hawken

Spiritual assets make us more resilient to the trauma and difficult experiences life inevitably throws at us.

Since spiritual assets bring us closer to our Higher Power, we do not face the difficulties alone, and we may find a greater purpose and meaning within the stress & trauma. When we lean on our spiritual assets to get us through, the traumatic event becomes less destructive. Instead, it becomes transformative; we see the difficulties in a new light. ~ Daniel D. Maurer

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy. ~ Robert Townsend

My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson. ~ Cody Johnson

Oh yes, that's about as sensitive as blunt trauma. ~ Trevor Alan Foris

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit. ~ Mark Russinovich

There was a point of equilibrium in any organization's middle management, a fulcrum of responsibility that remained still while the upper and lower ranks of the bureaucracy moved around it. Tyren knew from experience that a shrewd official could find this pivot-point within the org chart and, once entrenched, enjoy near-complete autonomy with almost no responsibility. ~ J. Zachary Pike

My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theater business, management of men. ~ William Butler Yeats

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. ~ Euripides

Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision ~ Bob Selden

Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy. ~ Winifred Gallagher

Being bound to one particular storyline such that one's narrative is rigid, does not imply the need to avoid formulating particular other kinds of possibilities. Rather, it involves being stuck in one self-limiting, self-reinforcing set of possibilities. ~ Elizabeth F. Howell

I watch what happens below and I
am grateful that I can smell my smell, smell my smell and live while below me it happens, it happens that night bright as day, but I cannot name it, those things that happened while I watched, and I cannot speak something that was never in words, speak of things I cannot imagine, could never have seen even as I saw it, and I hide and am grateful for my smell crouched like an animal in that dark hot space ~ Chris Abani

But how come no one says anything to my face? I do dozens of events per year and I've met thousands of readers, and every single person I've ever encountered has been lovely. Why is that, I wonder? Am I more charming in person, or is it that face-to-face blunt-force-trauma honesty requires a modicum of courage? ~ Jen Lancaster

The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service. ~ Pauline Neville-Jones

When someone tells you they're too busy, it's not that they mismanage their time, it's that you're not a priority. ~ Rob Liano

If you have been told that you are late and unreliable more than once, then not only do you lack punctuality, but you also lack decency and seriousness, which is certainly very annoying. ~ Auliq Ice

Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively ~ Sunday Adelaja

In short, none of the destructive fantasies that have taken possession of leaders in our own age, from Kemal Ataturk to Stalin, from the Khans of the Kremlin to the Kahns of the Pentagon, were foreign to the souls of the divinely appointed founders of the first machine civilization. With every increase of effective power, extravagantly sadistic and murderous impulses erupted out of the unconscious. This is the trauma that has distorted the subsequent development of all 'civilized' societies. And it is this fact that punctuates the entire history of mankind with outbursts of collective paranoia and tribal delusions of grandeur, mingled with malevolent suspicions, murderous hatreds, and atrociously inhumane acts. ~ Lewis Mumford

Management has to create a climate where owning up to mistakes is permissible and colleagues have to agree, collectively, to cut each other some slack. I ~ Chris Hadfield