Survival Quotes - Page 33

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

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

The solution to the nation's problems, depends on the true American achievers. It's people like you, playing by the rules and celebrating and continuing to remind people of the traditions and institutions that made this country great, who can re-create a society that is great once more. It's only by doing the right thing that this country is going to fix itself and survive.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?

Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!

There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels have economic value as well as obvious value for our health and our well-being and our survival. In fact, as you know, the economic revolution in renewable fuels has been impressive. It really had not been anticipated.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Darwinian evolution is slow and gradual, step by step. Such an evolution can explain micro-evolution but not macro-evolution. For example, how did the eye evolve? The idea behind Darwinism is that organisms adapt, and that nature selects only those genetic changes which are the mutations that serve a good purpose for adaptation. So taken this way, the eye cannot develop gradually because one-thousandth or one-millionth of an eye would be of no value for survival. So generally this question rules out Darwinism as an adequate theory for macro-evolution.

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

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian survival value, Darwinian selection in favor of religion. None of that of course bears at all upon the truth value of the claims made by religions.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.

Be swift to take advantage of business opportunities. Bigger companies are too cumbersome to move quickly; this can be a competitive advantage for you.

Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.

Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out.

Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.

Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.

Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.