Survival Quotes
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Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
Redd Foxx -
To me it was so natural that companies should seek their own survival. I had seen nothing else in my life. Companies struggle to keep going and to grow, for as long as possible.
Arie de Geus
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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 -
I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.
Anousheh Ansari -
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
Richard Adams -
If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention to other people’s needs.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Hannah Arendt -
The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
Erica Jong -
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
Raoul Vaneigem -
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
Tony Blair -
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 -
By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
Bill Gates -
Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy.
Gangaji
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At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.
Erik Adigard -
If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong – it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.
Robin Gibb Bee Gees -
The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.
Emily James Smith Putnam -
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 -
This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.
Daniel Schultz -
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
Erica Jong -
It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!
Catherynne M. Valente -
It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.
Joy Bryant -
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 Hal Cone