Surviving Quotes - Page 7

• Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

  Robert Ben Garant

  Writing, Criticism, Steps

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

  Janice Dickinson

  Fashion, Taken, Keys

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• Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mother, Believe, Loss

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• The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

  John Medina

  Brain, Problem, Unstable

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Experts, Way, Motto

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1000, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Reality, People, Survival

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• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

  M.I.A.

  Civilization, Greek, Stills

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• It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the kind of leadership that might allow us to nudge China and India, say, onto different energy trajectories, in order to improve our own chances of surviving this century.

  Bill McKibben

  Cutting, Exercise, Order

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.

  Peter Gay

  Religious, Children, Psychological Needs

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• Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, People, Would Be

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• Russell Hoban created a tremendous marriage of characters and philosophy. The plots, the wind-up toy characters, the settings, they all work together to support basically a dark vision that the world is kind of a dump. And we all have to find our ways of surviving in it and of making it a better place. It's a world where we don't have much help, other than what we bring to the table. It's a world in which brotherly love counts more than anything else.

  David Small

  Philosophy, Character, Dark

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Surviving is much more painful than death.

  Tom Clancy

  Painful

  Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney (2013). “Command Authority”, p.306, Penguin

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• Most people may not think about it, but the aftermath of war is very costly. Costly not just in lives, but the treatment. Because of the efficiency of our transportation system, the efficiency of our medical technicians, people are surviving.

  Daniel Inouye

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and were selected for. Biding your time, deferring gratification, staying still, foregoing sex for safety, and so forth, is essential in getting food, in surviving, and in successful reproduction.

  Patricia Churchland

  Strong, Sex, Successful

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

  James Lovelock

  Eugenics, Climate, Population

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• Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ideas, Nurse, Giving

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.140, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Keys, Focus, Pockets

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.191, John Wiley & Sons

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• We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that a character feels a strong desire - and nature is the place where creatures act on their desires in the most pure way imaginable, so maybe nature also works as a metaphor for whatever emotional troubles my characters have to negotiate. I'm interested in my characters as survivors, and maybe that works best when the old-fashioned notion of humans surviving in wilderness is not too far away.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Strong, Character, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

  Michael Moore

  Inspirational, Games, Islands

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• The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring,
  surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him.
  More than delivering strikes and slashes,
  and deeper in significance than the simple outwitting of an enemy, Ninpô is the way of attaining that which we need
  while making the world a better place.
  
  The skill of the Ninja is the art of winning.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Art, Winning, Simple

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• I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

  Anne Tyler

  Survival, Promise, Endurance

  Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.75, Random House

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• I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

  Frank McCourt

  Glowing, Clothes, America

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• I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable. If only we had the power to keep outside ourselves at such moments, we would spare ourselves so much pain and fear. I'm not talking about truth or falsehood but about surviving.

  Rachel Klein

  Girl, Pain, Talking

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving; this moment is okay.

  Martha Beck

  Pain, Grief, May

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• 'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lasts, Ruthlessness, Favors

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.160, Macmillan

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