"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."

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Source : "Businesses urged to prepare for flu pandemic". Interview with Desley Coleman, www.abc.net.au. May 1, 2009.

Margaret Chan

#Government Quotes #Community Quotes #Phases Quotes

“I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.”
“Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.”
“Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood... choose one type of music to calm down, another to reach a higher energy level, depending on the artwork you are doing.”
“It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.”
“To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.”
“Itâ€™s time to write dangerous music. Itâ€™s time to take risks. Itâ€™s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. Itâ€™s time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead.”
“J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.”

Source : Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books
“Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 19, 2017

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