Survival Quotes - Page 9

• To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

  George Orwell

  Dirty, Fighting, Literature

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• War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

  Percival Lowell

  War, Savages, Elements

  "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Chapter XXXII, Conclusion, 1906.

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• So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Animal, Men, Self

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• Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Circles, Giving

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3270, Penguin

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• There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

  Pat Summitt

  Instinct, Survival Instinct

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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• A Cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools his children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the 2nd Amendment, and who distrusts Big Government.

  Janet Reno

  Christian, Strong, Children

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• Certainly survival is important- very important- but at some point surviving wasn't enough. I felt ready to complete my surviving journey and start thriving and just living.

  Sark

  Journey, Important, Enough

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• When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Race, Average, Humanity

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• There is a built-in mechanism by which we respond fairly strongly and fairly negatively to somebody who is being negative or to somebody who is simply disagreeing with us, in which case it's a very unhappy position for our brain to be in. Our brain does not want us to be wrong. Because that has very dire consequences in terms of our overall survival.

  Andrew B. Newberg

  Brain, Unhappy, Negative

  Interview with Rahasya Poe, lotusguide.com. September 1, 2010.

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• A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Relationship, Love Relationship, Cherries

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• Hardships make or break people.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Being Strong, Perseverance, Courage

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

  Leslie Feinberg

  Struggle, Dangerous

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• At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

  Michael Crichton

  Risk, Outcomes, Unexpected

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Jewish Tradition, Laughing, Life Humor

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• Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.

  Garrison Wynn

  Tools, Handicaps

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• Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

  Joe Teti

  Mother, Home, Giving

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• The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fighting, Survival Mode, Energy

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• I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself ... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. Last night, driving back from Boston, I lay back in the car and let the colored lights come at me, the music from the radio, the reflection of the guy driving. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain ... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.

  Sylvia Plath

  Pain, Taken, Bye

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• Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

  Steig Larsson

  Causes, Lost, Fingers

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• While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Night, Office, Engagement

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.110, Penguin

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• Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

  Dhani Jones

  Winning, Will To Survive, Watches

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• Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

  Marilyn French

  Art, Waiting, Mind

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• At the most simplistic level physicists tell us that what we see as reality is not actually accurate. A rock looks solid to us but it's full of empty space and atoms moving and we see it as solid because we need to because it helps us survive, right? Survival being our goal. You can extrapolate that to many other things.

  Nicole Krauss

  Moving, Reality, Goal

  Source: therumpus.net

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