Survival Quotes - Page 12

• History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Suicide, Records, Notes

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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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• 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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• Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' they think they are referring above and beyond themselves... Nevertheless... such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction... and any deeper meaning is illusory...

  Michael Ruse

  Thinking, Hands, Feet

  "The Darwinian Paradigm: Essays on Its History, Philosophy and Religious Implications (Evolutionary Theory and Christian Ethics)". Book by Michael Ruse, 1989.

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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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• Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set.

  Lois Duncan

  Murder Mysteries, Goal, Important

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• The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.

  Tara Brach

  Focus, Mind, Energy

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• Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

  Pam Grier

  Struggle, Winning, Race

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• For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

  Mo Yan

  Country, Army, Boys

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• On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here?

  Jakob Nielsen

  Keys, People, Use

  "Usability 101: Introduction to Usability" by Jakob Nielsen, www.nngroup.com. January 4, 2012.

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• Survival must come before civilization.

  Lois Wyse

  Civilization

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• Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

  Jane Fonda

  Denial, Sometimes, Pathology

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mother, Teacher, Second Chance

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.40, Holt Paperbacks

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• Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

  Henry Fairlie

  Sex, Lust, Abuse

  Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

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• The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Mind, Atheism

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• Survival activates miracles when a person relies on the graces of hope and faith.

  Caroline Myss

  Miracle, Grace, Hope And Faith

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

  Aaron Levie

  Fighting, Entrepreneur, Company

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2012

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• It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

  Stephen Hawking

  Intelligent, Long, Intelligence

  "Life in the Universe" by Stephen Hawking, www.hawking.org.uk. 1996.

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• Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

  Louise Bernikow

  Female, Facts, Conversation

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

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• Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.

  Cesar Millan

  Dna, Views, Play

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2006). “Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems”, p.215, Crown Archetype

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• It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

  Joy Bryant

  Giving, Feel Good, Purpose

  "Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

  Ann Brashares

  Self, Together, Plot

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.58, Random House

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• The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

  Jean Chretien

  Art, Wall, Light

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.

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• Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

  Walter Bargen

  Lessons, Perseverence, Tribute

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• The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.

  Oliver Sacks

  Unique, Will To Survive, Miracle

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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