Survival Quotes - Page 28

• A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Age, Cockroaches, Dinosaurs

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• Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Inspirational, People, Together

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• Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

  Oliver Lodge

  Matter, Way, Results

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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• Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.

  Jacque Fresco

  Agreement, People, Important

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• Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.

  Bill Walsh

  Strong, People, Ego

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• I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.

  Patch Adams

  Thinking, Compassion, Government

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• Survival is optional.  No one has to change.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Improvement, Optional

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• Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

  Samuel Fuller

  Ambition, Men, Frustration

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

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• I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

  Michael Lewis

  Morning, Wall, Regret

  Michael Lewis (2010). “Liar's Poker”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Thinking, America

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• That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

  Carolyn Chute

  Hate, People, Community

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• The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do not show evolution in progress, for however the population may alter in their content of light, intermediate or dark forms, all the moths remain from beginning to end Biston Betularia.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Dark, Light, Progress

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• Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Ocean, Book, Islands

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• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

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• Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.

  James H. Cone

  Reflection, Creating, People

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• All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

  Josephine Hart

  People, Pity, Dangerous

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

  Josephine Hart

  Vision, Elements, Sanity

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion

  Kurt Hahn

  Education, Compassion, Self

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• Why do we so mindlessly abuse our planet, our only home? The answer to that lies in each of us. Therefore, we will strive to bring about understanding that we are--each one of us--responsible for more than just ourselves, our family, our football team, our country, or our own kind; that there is more to life than just these things. That each one of us must also bring the natural world back into its proper place in our lives, and realize that doing so is not some lofty ideal but a vital part of our personal survival.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Football, Country, Team

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• The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

  James de la Vega

  Dream, Sight, Cities

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• Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

  Heinz Pagels

  Feelings, Reason, Capacity

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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• Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

  Bear Grylls

  Weather, Priorities, Firsts

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• What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mistake, Struggle, Men

  Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.13, Verso

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• Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.

  Edgar Morin

  Understanding, Humanity, Progress

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• [on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

  Trent Franks

  Running, Long, Marriage Equality

  "Rep. Trent Franks Calls Marriage Equality A 'Threat To The Nation’s Survival'" by Brian Tashman, www.rightwingwatch.org. October 28, 2011.

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