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“The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.”

May Important Force Loss Limits Behavior Perception Survival Gains Threat Profit Driving Driving Force Profit Maximization

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.”

Mind Heart Self Feelings Spirit Levels Quality Our Lives Perception Survival Function Practicals Developing Internals Pondering

Author:Caroline Myss

“Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.”

World Humans Perception Survival Threat Perception Of The World

Author:Kevin Bacon

“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.”

Source: The electric kool-aid acid test

“Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.”

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight”

Men Mean Reality Force Judgment Perception Survival Destruction Sight Threat Perception Reality

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.”

Doe Spiritual Awareness Perception Survival Instinct Clarity Liberation Survival Instinct Alertness Alertness Is

Author:Jaggi Vasudev