There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job – they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?
Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
We have to look for opportunities if we’re going to survive the next 50 years. We can’t depend on what we have now.
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There’s this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don’t survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.
You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. That’s the whole world.
Talent alone doesn’t matter in this industry, and everyone knows this. If someone says, ‘Good films are done’, ‘Talent always survives’, there are other factors, too, which are far more important.
The things we make have one supreme quality – they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
As a species, we’ve somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we’ll survive our own ingenuity.
A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn’t feel right.
Sometimes we have to disobey in order to transcend, in order to survive.
Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.
In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.
Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.
Don’t worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains… who is the next Ronald Reagan?
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There’ll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there’ll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.
As a viewer, I’m personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they’re going to survive in a world that doesn’t necessarily invite them in.
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That’s why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint, we have to live. Of course, there are different ways to survive. But it’s my best option.
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
I’m interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn’t survive and I’m examining closely the reasons they failed.
It’s the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.
It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability.
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I’m very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don’t see how they’ll survive – why don’t we just all go to the movies or watch television.
When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we’ve been able to do that.
If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn’t have needed to break the law just to survive.
I just hope that my films will survive me.
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
Under Stalin, artists weren’t dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.
I’m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
I want to do whatever I can to survive.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that’s why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
The reason for natural selection’s great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.
The Internet is a giant ‘lab experiment’ for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win.
Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.
How well we survive this time of creative destruction, it really is, depends on each of us, on each of us fighting our individual battles of integrity, for integrity.
I don’t know if the art of stand-up will survive. Stand-up seems dated. Now you can do a mini-movie or a short with a beginning, middle, and end. A guy standing there seems a little old – especially when you can go on the Internet and see ‘Funny or Die.’
It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days – unmarried – was just unheard of.
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
I don’t think the planet can survive people. It’s not the other way around. I don’t think the planet can survive.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
Social media companies are a gold rush today, and time will tell if they survive. I have no use for them and can’t see why people waste time on them. I much prefer physical meeting with true friends, so have never used the service.
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn’t he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.
Without disruptions, startups can’t survive.
A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It’s part of the dog and pony show.
I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.
I used to think I was a big star. And I used to think that the TV industry, Balaji, and my show will not survive without me. But then I realised that you cannot be bigger than your work.
North Korea is still my homeland, my country. I suffered on the outside because I was alien, without identity. I was nobody. I was in the worst situation, fighting for everything, to survive.
