“Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell.” WorldAgeTodayTurnsToo MuchDemandSurvivalConstantSmellSensesPrimitiveUrbanTurn OffAlertnessUrban Life Author:Carole Katchen
“We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.” PeopleStillsPastPartyConsciousnessMilitaryDisciplineDemandSurvivalEthicsRegardFulfillmentSovietShortcomingsMilitary Discipline Author:Filipp Golikov
“Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.” EconomyRiskDependsDemandSurvivalErrorsTrialsExperimentationRisk-takingTrial And Error Author:Kevin Allen
“In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, often under great time pressure, leaders must make decisions and take effective actions to assure the survival and success of their organizations. This is how leaders add value to their organizations. They lead them to success by exercising good judgment, by making smart calls when especially difficult and complicated decisions simply must be made, and then ensuring that they are well executed.” WellsMadeActionFacesValuesDifficultDecisionLeaderExerciseDemandJudgmentSurvivalSmartOrganizationPressureAddComplicatedUncertaintyAmbiguityGreat TimesGood Judgment Author:Warren G. Bennis
“While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.” WayLittlesMightNightToo MuchDemandOfficeSurvivalStrategyMeetingsFormerFulfillmentLatterSatisfyingEngagementClassroomCompliancePersonal FulfillmentComplying Book:Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.” WorldPeaceEnemyCivilizationDemandSurvivalAbsolutesOur WorldDreamerLoving YouPiousUtopianLoving Your Enemies Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man-not merely a person-has to do with that role.” MenNeedsLooksPersonsStillsQualityRolesStruggleVirtueJudgingDemandSurvivalAdmireManhoodEmergenciesGangGuardianDoomEvaluateDependablePerimeter Author:Jack Donovan
“Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.” WayYearsStatesFactsAsksBehindsStruggleDemandSurvivalYears AgoArmyPopulationIsraelWideNeighborMilesSecureRangePresidentialBordersHeroicFoundingHostileArtilleryStruggle For Survival Author:Ronald Reagan
“He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.” ColorProductsDemandSurvivalSurvival Of The Fittest Author:George Washington Carver