survival Quotes

In a jungle of sly co-workers, the key to survival is knowing when to strike and when to simply slither away.

In the corporate jungle, mastering the art of kissing the boss ass can be your sharpest survival tool.

Steps of perestroika. From life to existence, from existence to survival, from survival to the struggle for life.

In times of war, survival teaches you to live like a spy, hiding your true intentions, just as many Ukrainians were forced to do.

My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn\'t going to get her anywhere and it didn\'t. I wasn\'t even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn\'t good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what\'s good in our lives, we will be all right.

It\'s a survival thing. I don\'t do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural ion is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

If something happens and you\'re behind, and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you\'re going to get up and go to work.

It is fair to say that the political duopoly we are forced to accept creates a set of problems that threaten the survival of the nation, problems that we need to fix with system-wide changes.

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.

My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The Great Leader, my grandfather, ruled with the support of the world\'s other superpower at the time, the Soviet Union, as well as our China. But today, the Soviet Union is history and China has become more integrated with the Western system. And the United States seeks regime change in my country. And yet, we have survived with our ideology and system intact. How? Because we have built a protection for ourselves in the form of nuclear weapons.

On New Year\'s Day we don\'t celebrate new beginnings; we rest after the year-long race for survival.

The survival of ISIS\'s ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

I actually don\'t think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

When you have children, you almost feel like you\'ve made your contribution to the survival of the human species. It\'s your way of passing the baton.

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It\'s a survival mechanism.

Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers of rebirth. To live with these layers is to be a true Louisianian. This state has a depth that is simultaneously beyond words and yet as natural as breathing. How can a place be both other-worldly and completely pedestrian is beyond me; however, Louisiana manages to do it. Louisiana is spooky that way.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

Once a man fought for survival with nature, now with himself!

The art of survival belongs to the people.

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

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.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.