Survival Quotes - Page 8

• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

  Joan Crawford

  Hollywood, Faces, Equipment

  Joan Crawford (2017). “A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford”, p.73, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

  Julia Cameron

  Lying, Attention, Delight

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• In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

  Willard Gaylin

  Struggle, Safety, Pitfalls

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• Credibility is a basic survival tool.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Tools, Credibility

  "Men Explain Things to Me — Facts Didn’t Get in the Way" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

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• For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.

  Warren Farrell

  War, Self, Years

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.

  William D. Cohan

  Brother, Wall, Dirty

  "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street". Book by William D. Cohan, March 10, 2009.

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• Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe happiness comes from pleasure, or from getting things or power over people or money or fame or even health and survival. None of these sometimes very good things can bring ultimate meaning to our lives. We are born to be deeply conscious, inwardly free and deeply capable of love. The longing for these things is the definition of what it means to be human.

  Jacob Needleman

  Believe, Mean, People

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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• Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

  John Ciardi

  Character, Men, Needs

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• MATTHEW'S RULES OF SURVIVAL 1. Sometimes, the people who mean you harm are the ones who say they love you. 2. Fear is your friend. When you feel it, act. 3. Protect the little ones. 4. If you coped before, you can cope now. 5. Always remember: In the end, the survivor gets to tell the story.

  Nancy Werlin

  Love You, Mean, People

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• Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

  Patricia Cornwell

  Revenge

  Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Postmortem”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Growth, Life Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.37, Friederich Nietzsche

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• The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

  Richard Flanagan

  Giving Up, Path, Small Things

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.184, Vintage

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• Does Rupert like me? I think so, but it doesn't matter. When I go up to the magic room in the sky every three months, if my numbers are right, I get to live. If not, I'm killed. Our relationship isn't about love-it's about arithmetic. Survival means hitting your numbers. I've met or exceeded mine in 56 straight quarters. The reason is: I treat Rupert's money like it is mine.

  Roger Ailes

  Mean, Thinking, Sky

  "Roger Ailes calls Obama 'lazy' in new biography as book war gets under way" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Special

  "Tips for Entrepreneurial Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2011.

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• The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Brain, Essentials, Culture

  "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Cardboard Darwinism", pp. 48 - 49, 1987.

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• Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest.

  Pitbull

  Artist, Men, Islands

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Family, Symbols, Arrangements

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• All thoughts are just junk. Essentially, they are coming from the limited experience of past. These thoughts are useful for your survival process. You've picked up some amount of information; you want to survive in the world; this information is useful. If you're looking at life itself, these thoughts are meaningless.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Past, Experience

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• Unless you are in a survival situation, if you allow yourself to be creative, to be thinking, to be developing, there will be outbursts. You can say, almost beauteously, when you have less time for art, you have to select your best practice.

  Paola Pivi

  Art, Thinking, Creative

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• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Being Alone, Thinking

  "Campus Life: Centenary; Love Is Message As Maya Angeloub Addresses 700", www.nytimes.com. March 11, 1990.

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• Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

  Joan Rivers

  Revenge, Matter, Remember

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Self, Principles, Firsts

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.7

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• Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

  Jamais Cascio

  Goal, Resilience, Overcoming

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• Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

  Walt Disney

  Communication, Humanity, Freedom Of Speech

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