“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.” PeopleMadeGovernmentRunningAsksMistakeCompanyFailingIndustryTerribleSurvivalBiggerMaking MistakesReverseDarwinism Author:Peter Schiff
“Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksTwoEndsCareKidsDiesCoursesLeftParentFailingSurvivalEthicsBuiltTalesTwo ThingsFairyFrightenedFairy TaleLook At YourselfNobody Cares Author:Stephen King
“It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.” PeopleWorldWayCountryEnoughDiesPoorLeaderPovertyToo MuchFailingCostSurvivalTradeBasicsEnding PovertyPoor Countries Author:Edward de Bono
“China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.” IdeasLastsCulturePartyEffortFailingSurvivalResourcesChinaLifelines Author:Ai Weiwei
“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.” PeopleInspirationalIdeasTodayFacesSocialChangeChallengesSleepAbilityFailingYouthRevolutionDependsPeriodsSurvivalAwakeChanging The WorldNew IdeasIndifferentStatus QuoSocial ChangeProtectorVigilantFraternityLiabilityNotoriousChallenging Status QuoChallenging The Status QuoSocial Activism Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.” MenDoeMatterLastsFailingSurvivalNo Matter WhatOddsPins Book:Endurance Source: Endurance
“Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.” KnowsYearsMeanBodyAgePainLife IsWatchesGrowingFailingSacrificeDyingSurvivalInstinctToilSurvival Instinct Book:Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.” IfsMenLifeShouldWellsStillsMatterWholeHappensLeftFailingHonestyBalanceSurvivalNo Matter WhatDisasterLive LifeRight ThingMisfortunesBalancedMagnificentEmphasisSymmetrical Author:Orison Swett Marden
“Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.” WorldWellsHeartProblemScienceNationsCausesFailingHolySurvivalIdealsGreedIntellectSelfishChiefsSelfishnessSelfishness And Greed Author:G. Stanley Hall
“Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?” LifeHumansSoulPurposeCasesForeverFailingEternalSurvivalEternityAccomplishImmortalityAssumptionGuaranteesSurvivingHuman SoulEternal LifeAfter DeathRiddlePresent Life Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.” IfsWorldFirstsTodayCultureRoomsFailingThis WorldPlanetsPeriodsCivilizationEternalSurvivalEmbraceWesternLeavingSpreadGreat MenContinentsSurvivedWestern CivilizationOther Cultures Author:Thor Heyerdahl
“That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.” WorldMindHumansLongBodyRunningPurposeDiesAnimalFailingFailureArmsSurvivalFunctionCeaseUselessSchemesHuman BodyDecreeSlowly But Surely Author:B. C. Forbes
“And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.” IfsFailingSurvivalAshamed Author:Richard Branson
“On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here?” PeopleIfsHardStatesUseLostDifficultCan DoAnswersCompanyFailingConditionsInformationKeysOffersSurvivalNotesPatternsUsersSiteWebsiteUsability Author:Jakob Nielsen
“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 a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.” HumansMayFailingSurvivalAdvantagePartnersTerritoryAggression Author:Stephen Hawking