Fears, insecurities, and the need to please can rule our lives. Our society is economically and socially set up for us to live under these pressures in order to maintain its control and survival.
From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn’t think about science too much.
To be honest, I don’t feel like I am able to say that I had a childhood, not in a way normal kids my age had. I had something that was specific to Bosnia in ’90s, something I call a period of survival.
What might be happening in human beings who experience near death is that they are getting cold, but before they get so cold that they would die, they’re actually diminishing their oxygen consumption in a way that is unknown. And that extends their survival limits, so they can appear dead but actually not be dead.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
There are times when you do have to bring animals into captivity to save a species like California Condors, or Arabian Aurochs. But they have something called species survival plans, and they do it in a very thoughtful way and are careful with the genetics.
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one’s own genes in the generations to follow.
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
I’m interested in how we react when we’re heavily pressed. When we’re vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.
In the ongoing effort to combat Ebola, more needs to be done to rewrite the public-health narrative. It must move from one that has been infused with fear to one that recognizes the hope for survival that supportive care can offer infected people.
I became a stand-up because that was my survival.
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation’s survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two’s is the most important thing.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It’s become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Astonishingly powerful and poignant, ‘Gravity’ is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.
The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You’re fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It’s really that simple.
Escapism is survival to me.
Climate change has far-reaching consequences for our own survival on this planet. As an issue, it overrides everything else.
Selective memory is surely one of nature’s most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.
Developing survival skills in life is incredibly important and I was very lucky that I developed them at a very young age.
I think it is essential for Israel’s survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don’t want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects.
When most of us hear the phrase, ‘survival of the fittest,’ we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn’t exist anywhere in Darwin’s first edition of ‘Origin of the Species.’
The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with these wonderful people has been incredibly valuable.
The only thing my famous last name got me was a foothold in the industry. That was the easy part. The biggest problem is survival. As Fazil’s son, I am expected to know everything – acting, dancing, horse riding… I am not trained in all these, and I don’t think I ever will be.
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
I didn’t take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Jews, black people – any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people – use humour. It is a survival skill.
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn’t understand that, they just don’t understand me and my generation because especially in the LGBT community, the concept of chosen family is so important and it’s a survival tactic.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Hezbollah will support Assad to the end because his continuing hold on power is critical to its own survival.
The E.U.’s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigration even in wartime are gradually ruining Europe. That’s why I believe Brexit is good for British freedom, political autonomy, and the survival of democratic capitalism.
The survival of ISIS’s ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.
We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
When you’re losing, there’s that survival instinct. But when you’re handling success, people think it’s easier, and they think losing’s harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?
When you don’t have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.
Survival is nothing more than recovery.
Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.
People think actresses have fame and money, but they are not aware of the difficulties we undergo. People should understand that we are sacrificing so much for our survival.
In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.
In times of disaster, basic connectivity is a form of aid that connects people to the resources critical for survival and enables humanitarian organizations to quickly deliver life-saving information.
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
Having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus.
That larger story in ‘Salvage the Bones’ is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters’ experiences that make their stories universal stories.
