Survival Skills Quotes

• Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in relation to this stress is ultimately to help the child learn to manage his or her own stress wisely. In accomplishing this, the teacher mentors higher academic learning by removing distracting stress, and teaches valuable life-survival skills.

  Michael Gurian

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

  Michael Gurian (2010). “Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents: Revised 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.152, John Wiley & Sons

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• The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.

  Cody Lundin

  Odds, Skills, Survival

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

  Richard Leakey

  Law, Skills, Survival

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• I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.

  Connor Jessup

  Skills, Survival, Kind

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• Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

  Jill McCorkle

  Skills, Survival

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• The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Skills, Survival, Training

  Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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• Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Ignorance, Skills, Survival

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.267, Macmillan

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• Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Strong, Team, Home

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during the South Asian tsunami. In some villages it was 3 to 1. And that was party because of the average strength it takes to hold onto something. Also it was cultural; women were less likely to know how to swim, as were children. So much of this is based on how we develop our own survival skills before something goes wrong: Even if nothing goes wrong, it might be good to know how to swim.

  Amanda Ripley

  Children, Party, Average

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

  Shailene Woodley

  Skills, Fire, Tree

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands, and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on... I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.

  Chloe Sevigny

  New York, Hipster, Kids

  "Chloe Sevigny 'describes ideal boyfriend'" by Justin Harp, www.digitalspy.com. December 22, 2010.

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• Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Skills, Survival

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• I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, Skills, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.

  Frank Iero

  Hate, Heart, Skills

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• I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

  Landon Pearson

  Children, Mean, Skills

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• I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Funny, Smart, Skills

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• A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

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• She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.

  Rachel Vincent

  Block, Heart, Skills

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Shadow Bound”, p.135, MIRA

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• I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Skills, Climbing, Self

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Believe, Skills, Heaven

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• Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

  Sarah Silverman

  Skills, People, Black

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• I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene.

  Harold Ramis

  Skills, Laughing, Survival

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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