Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanley Milgram

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Thomas A. Edison

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

Tina Turner

I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.

Sylvia Plath

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.

Stephen Covey

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

Stephen Hawking

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 partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.

Stephen Hawking

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

T. S. Eliot

Survival is your strength not your shame.

Scott Westerfeld

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

Joseph Boyden

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it. but there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

Rahm Emanuel

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.

Richard Dawkins

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

Rebecca West

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

Rebecca Solnit

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Rebecca Solnit

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

Rick Yancey

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

Vic Morrow

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

Vinton Cerf

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

Richard Louv

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

Richard M. Nixon

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not...

Richard Dawkins

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins

In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive.

Salman Rushdie

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Georges St-Pierre

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.

Herbert Spencer

It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Herbert Spencer

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Sales is survival, the best-prepared are most likely to survive.

Jill McCorkle

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

Jeaniene Frost

Survival first, then heartbreak.

Jeff Bezos

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

Jason Momoa

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

Janet Fitch

How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.