Survival Quotes - Page 11

• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Change, Meaningful, Top Management

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• Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

  Tom Robbins

  Mean, Evil, Serious

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• the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Men, Order

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.289, Open Road Media

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• London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Past, Long

  Anna Quindlen (2006). “Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City”, p.19, National Geographic Books

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• What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.

  Carl Sagan

  Competition, Essentials, Cooperation

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Worry, Leader

  "Controverisal Netanyahu Speech Is Latest Glitch In U.S.-Israel Relations". www.npr.org. March 3, 2015.

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• As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

  James Forrestal

  War, Victory, Depends

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• The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Artist, Creative, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.24, New World Library

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• Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.

  Wade Davis

  Past, Essence, Doe

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• The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality–it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see." -Richard

  Terry Goodkind

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

  David Gemmell

  Thinking, Mind, Poison

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• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

  John Vance Cheney

  Heartbroken, Breakup, Spiritual

  John Vance Cheney (1905). “Poems”

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• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Cancer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Struggle, Exercise, Years

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• If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It’s a no-win situation. It’s a death penalty really.

  Dennis Lehane

  Fall, Winning, Insane Person

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• Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Animal, Novelty, Poor

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.76, Macmillan

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• When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

  Yann Martel

  Selfish, Empathy, Life Is

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Country, Guarantees

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• Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

  Michael Shannon

  Humility, Thinking, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

  Robin Green

  Dog, Jobs, Wind

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• The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

  Suzy Kassem

  Men, Chance, He Man

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, December 12, 2010.

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• A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Reform, Nations

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• ...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Feelings

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• This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

  Roland Barthes

  Unfaithful, Absence, Forgetfulness

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• To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Love Yourself, Choices

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